neut. n. microbium, a microbe; N.L. neut. n. Elusimicrobium, an elusive microbe, hard to find, capture, or isolate. Elusimicrobia / Elusimicrobia / Elusimicrobiales / Elusimicrobiaceae / Elusimicrobium Obligately anaerobic......
The family Elusimicrobiaceae contains only a single species, Elusimicrobium minutum , whose uncultured relatives are found in the intestinal tracts of insects and vertebrates. E. minutum is an obligately anaerobic ultramicrobacterium that ferments glucose and only a few other sugars in an unusual...