Entry
Org code
efm
Name
Enterococcus faecium ATCC 8459 = NRRL B-2354
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Lactobacillales; Enterococcaceae; Enterococcus
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Comment
Surrogate microorganism used in place of pathogens for validation of thermal processing technologies and systems.
Originally isolated from dairy utensils in 1927.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
2635572
Plasmid
pNB2354_1; Circular
Sequence
Length
214319
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 2849891
Number of protein genes: 2639
Number of RNA genes: 65
Created
2013
Reference
Authors
Kopit LM, Kim EB, Siezen RJ, Harris LJ, Marco ML
Title
Safety of the surrogate microorganism Enterococcus faecium NRRL B-2354 for use in thermal process validation.
Journal
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