Abstract
Clostridium butyricum is one of the species frequently present in patients’ stool samples. However, the identification of this species is sometimes difficult. Here, we present the draft genome of Clostridium butyricum NOR 33234, which was isolated from a patient with suspected Clostridium difficile infection-associated diarrhea and resembles Clostridium clostridioforme in biochemical tests.
Highlights
Clostridium butyricum is one of the species frequently present in patients’ stool samples
Toxin-free strains are used in probiotics, especially in preventing Clostridium diffiicle-related diarrhea [3]
When all the coding genes were searched against nonredundant protein databases in NCBI, 3,901 genes had significant hits (E value Յ1e-30)
Summary
Clostridium butyricum is one of the species frequently present in patients’ stool samples. The varied roles of Clostridium butyricum range from a promising biofuel producer [1] to a neurotoxigenic pathogen [2]. Toxin-free strains are used in probiotics, especially in preventing Clostridium diffiicle-related diarrhea [3]. The genome of strain 5521 carrying botulinum neurotoxin type E (boNT/E) has been sequenced [4].
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