Bacteroidetes (class)
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The class Bacteroidetes is composed of a single order of environmental bacteria. By far, the Bacteroidales class are the most well-studied of the Bacteroidetes. Some members of the genus Bacteroides are opportunistic pathogens[1].
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- ^ Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.