''Microbacterium barkeri'' is a bacterium from the genus ''
Microbacterium
''Microbacterium'' is a genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae. Microbacteria are common contaminants of laboratory reagents, which can lead to their being misrepresented in microbiome data.
Species
''Microbacterium'' comprises the fo ...
'' which has been isolated from
domestic sewage
Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewer system. Sewage consists of wastewater discharged from residenc ...
and from smear from a cheeses.
[ ''Microbacterium barkeri'' has the ability to degrade ]polyvinyl alcohol
Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVOH, PVA, or PVAl) is a water-soluble synthetic polymer. It has the idealized formula H2CH(OH)sub>''n''. It is used in papermaking, textile warp sizing, as a thickener and emulsion stabilizer in polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) ...
.
References
Further reading
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External links
Type strain of ''Microbacterium barkeri'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 1983
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