Rhodococcus erythropolis (Gray and Thornton 1928) Goodfellow and Alderson 1979
IEGM 179
<- M.V. Berdichevskaya, B11. Isolated from: oil-polluted water, Kama reservoir, Perm region, Russia. Taxonomy/description (95, 96, 245). Demonstrates the reaction of complete identity with polyclonal antiserum against Rhodococcus erythropolis IEGM 7T(96); shows positive result with Rhodococcus erythropolis primers in species-specific PCR (245). Properties: uses hydrocarbons and aromatic acids (p-oxybenzoic, phenylacetic) as sole carbon source (92). (Medium 8, 28oC).
Medium: 8