''Halomonas stevensii'' is a
halophilic
The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the domain Archaea, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, ...
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 pote ...
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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