Leptospirillum ferriphilum
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Leptospirillum ferriphilum is an iron-oxidising bacterium able to exist in environments of high acidity, high iron concentrations, and moderate to moderately high temperatures.[1] It is one of the species responsible for the generation of acid mine drainage[2] and the principal microbe used in industrial biohydrometallurgy processes to extract metals.[3]
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Leptospirillum ferriphilum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Nitrospirota |
Class: | Nitrospira |
Order: | Nitrospirales |
Family: | Nitrospiraceae |
Genus: | Leptospirillum |
Species: | L. ferriphilum |
Binomial name | |
Leptospirillum ferriphilum Coram & Rawlings, 2002 | |
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