Virgibacillus alimentarius

Virgibacillus alimentarius is a bacterium first isolated from a traditional Korean food, hence its name. It is Gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile, endospore-forming and halophilic, with J18^T (=KACC 14624^T =JCM 16994^T) as the type strain.^[1]

Virgibacillus alimentarius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Bacillaceae
Genus:	Virgibacillus
Species:	V. alimentarius
Binomial name
Virgibacillus alimentarius Kim et al. 2011