| flavobacterium indicum sp. nov., isolated from warm spring water in assam, india. | a polyphasic taxonomic approach was employed to characterize a strain designated gptsa100-9t, which was isolated from water sampled from a warm spring. the micro-organism, comprising gram-negative, strictly aerobic rods, could not grow on nutritionally rich media such as tryptic soy broth. analysis of the 16s rrna gene sequence (1396 nt) of strain gptsa100-9t revealed that it is a member of the genus flavobacterium, sharing 99.8% sequence similarity with the cfb group bacterium strain a0653 (af2 ... | 2006 | 17082401 |