| serratia ureilytica sp. nov., a novel urea-utilizing species. | a gram-negative, rod-shaped, urea-dissolving and non-spore-forming bacterium, designated strain niva 51(t), was isolated from water of the river torsa in hasimara, jalpaiguri district, west bengal, india. on the basis of 16s rrna gene sequence similarity, strain niva 51(t) was shown to belong to the gamma-proteobacteria and to be related to serratia marcescens subsp. sakuensis (98.35%) and s. marcescens subsp. marcescens (98.30%); however, strain niva 51(t) exhibited only 43.7% similarity to s. ... | 2005 | 16166724 |