| lactobacillus psittaci sp. nov., isolated from a hyacinth macaw (anodorhynchus hyacinthinus). | a gram-positive, non-spore-forming, catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccibacillus to rod-shaped bacterium isolated from a parrot was characterized using phenotypic and molecular taxonomic methods. the unknown bacterium phenotypically resembled lactobacilli and comparative 16s rrna gene sequencing demonstrated that the organism represents a distinct subline within the lactobacillus delbrueckii rrna cluster of the genus. 16s rrna sequence divergence values of > 6% with recognized lactob ... | 2001 | 11411722 |