''Brachybacterium faecium'' is a species of

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, facultatively anaerobic

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. Colony pigmentation is grey, white, or pale yellow. The cells are coccoid during the stationary phase, and irregular rods during the exponential phase. It was first isolated from poultry

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in 1966. The species was the first proposed for genus ''Brachybacterium'' in 1988, and is the type strain for the genus. The name is derived from the

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''faecium'' (dregs of feces), referring to the poultry litter from which it was first isolated. The optimum growth temperature for ''B. faecium'' is 25-30 °C.Collins MD, Brown J, Jones D
Brachybacterium faecium gen. nov., sp. nov., a coryneform bacterium from poultry deep litter.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 1988 Jan 1;38(1):45-8.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Brachybacterium faecium'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
{{Taxonbar, from=Q25840502 Micrococcales Bacteria described in 1988