Dietzia cinnamea
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Classification
Bacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinomycetales
Corynebacterineae
Dietziaceae
Dietzia
Species: Dietzia cinnamea
NCBI Taxonomy ID:[1]
Description and Significance
Dietzia cinnamea is rod shaped in the medical swab while the P4 strain from the soil samples produces a coccoid shape. The organism forms smooth, yellow to orange colonies on agar plates and is single or arranges in small connected colonies. It is gram positive and has a high G+C content, meaning a high number of Guanine and Cytosine (Von der Weid, 2006). It displays snapping division, which is the arrangement of cells in a palisade or angular manor resulting from binary fission (Prescott, 2002). This is a characteristic of the genera Arthrobacter and Corynebacterium.
