description of tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments. | two strains of aerobic, non-motile, gram-reaction-positive cocci were independently isolated from geographically distinct spacecraft assembly clean room facilities (kennedy space center, florida, usa and centre spatial guyanais, kourou, french guiana). a polyphasic study was carried out to delineate the taxonomic identity of these two isolates (1p05ma(t) and ko_ps43). the 16s rrna gene sequences exhibited a high similarity when compared to each other (100 %) and lower than 96.7 % relatedness wit ... | 2013 | 23223813 |