Cloacibacterium

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Cloacibacterium normanense is a bacterium originally found in wastewater in Norman, Oklahoma. This genus in the family Flavobacteriaceae was new to science when it was described in 2006. It is Gram-negative, non-motile, and facultatively anaerobic. Physically, it is a rod-shaped organism with yellow pigmentation.

This organism was discovered using a non-selective medium, as opposed to the traditional selective media often used to isolate microorganisms. In this case, the method involved diluting raw sewage.

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• Allen, Toby D.; et al. (2006). "Cloacibacterium normanense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from municipal wastewater". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56: 1311-1316. Retrieved on 2006-07-13. 
• Peterson, Althea. "OU Professor and Class Find New Bacteria Genus", The Norman Transcript, 2006-06-18. Retrieved on July 13, 2006.