| sphingomonas histidinilytica sp. nov., isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane dump site. | a gram-negative, non-spore-forming, cream-coloured bacterial strain, um2(t), was isolated from an open hexachlorocyclohexane (hch) dump site at ummari village in lucknow, india. data generated from a polyphasic approach including phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic analyses confirmed that strain um2(t) belonged to the genus sphingomonas. the highest similarity found to the 16s rrna gene sequence of strain um2(t) was 99.4 %, with sphingomonas wittichii dsm 6014(t), whereas the dna-dna relate ... | 2010 | 19666786 |