Microbacterium

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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| taxon = Microbacterium

|image= Microbacterium gubbeenense NRRL B-24242 (Type Strain).jpg

|image_caption= Microbacterium gubbeenense on agar plate

| authority = Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980){{cite book | author = Orla-Jensen S. | year = 1919 | title = The Lactic Acid Bacteria | location = Copenhagen | publisher = Host & Sons}}{{cite journal | vauthors = Skerman VB, McGowan V, Sneath PH | title = Approved lists of bacterial names | journal = Int J Syst Bacteriol | date = 1980 | volume = 30 | pages = 225–420 | doi = 10.1099/00207713-30-1-225| doi-access = free }}

| type_species = Microbacterium lacticum

| type_species_authority = Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

| synonyms = * Aureobacterium Collins et al. 1983

| synonyms_ref={{cite web | vauthors = Euzéby JP, Parte AC |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/microbacterium | title = Microbacterium | access-date = June 10, 2022 | publisher = List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}{{cite journal | vauthors = Takeuchi M, Hatano K | title = Union of the genera Microbacterium Orla-Jensen and Aureobacterium Collins et al. in a redefined genus Microbacterium | journal = Int J Syst Bacteriol | year = 1998 | volume = 48 | issue = 3 | pages = 739–747 | doi = 10.1099/00207713-48-3-739 | pmid = 9734028| doi-access = free }}

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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.{{cite journal | vauthors = Salter SJ, Cox MJ, Turek EM, Calus ST, Cookson WO, Moffatt MF, Turner P, Parkhill J, Loman NJ, Walker AW | journal = BMC Biol | year = 2014 | volume = 12 | pages = 87 | doi = 10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z | title = Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses | pmid = 25387460 | pmc = 4228153 | doi-access = free }}

Species

Microbacterium comprises the following species:

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References

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Category:Microbacteriaceae

Category:Bacteria genera