Amended description of Ramibacterium alactolyticum Prevot and Taffanel with proposal of a neotype strain

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Abstract
Prévot's strain DO-4 (VPI strain 0416) is proposed as the neotype strain of Ramibacterium alactolyticum Prévot and Taffanel (1942). This strain represents members of the genus Ramibacterium formerly assigned to R. alactolyticum, R. pleuriticum, and R. dentium, which are objective synonyms. R. alactolyticum is an aerobic, Gram-positive, catalase-negative, pleomorphic rod that produces alcohols and acetic, butyric, caprioc, and often caprylic acids from glucose, apparently by condensation of 2-carbon intermediates with carboxylic acids in the medium. The organism is morphologically similar to the anaerobic corynebacteria, but can be differentiated from catalase-negative anaerobic corynebacteria by fermentation products and by several other properties as described in this study. R. alactolyticum has been isolated from human infections in Europe and in the United States.

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