''Halomonas stevensii'' is a
halophilic
A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations. In chemical terms, halophile refers to a Lewis acidic species that has some ability to extract halides from other chemical species.
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bacteria first isolated from
dialysis
Dialysis may refer to:
* Dialysis (chemistry), a process of separating molecules in solution
**Electrodialysis, used to transport salt ions from one solution to another through an ion-exchange membrane under the influence of an applied electric po ...
patients and the environment surrounding them.
Its genome has been sequenced.
References
Further reading
*Kim, Kwang Kyu, et al. "Halomonas stevensii sp. nov., Halomonas hamiltonii sp. nov. and Halomonas johnsoniae sp. nov., isolated from a renal care centre." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 60.2 (2010): 369–377.
*Pieretti, Giuseppina, et al. "O-chain structure from the lipopolysaccharide of the human pathogen Halomonas stevensii strain S18214." Carbohydrate research346.2 (2011): 362–365.
*Pieretti, Giuseppina, et al. "Characterization of the Core Oligosaccharide and the O‐Antigen Biological Repeating Unit from Halomonas stevensii Lipopolysaccharide: The First Case of O‐Antigen Linked to the Inner Core."Chemistry-A European Journal 18.12 (2012): 3729–3735.
External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Halomonas stevensii'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Oceanospirillales
Bacteria described in 2009
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