Enterococcus columbae, a species from pigeon intestines
- 15 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 71 (3) , 247-251
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1097(90)90228-i
Abstract
Gram-positive cocci which dominate in the intestinal flora of domestic pigeons were found to constitute a new species of the genus Enterococcus. The strains were most closely related to Enterococcus cecorum, originally described as Streptococcus cecorum, a carboxyphilic species from chicken intestines, and to Enterococcus avium. The pigeon strains resemble E. cecorum and also many E. avium strains in their lack of group D antigen and in being more sensitive to NaCl than other enterococci. The type strain is strain STR 345 (NCIMB 13013).Keywords
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