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      <citation citation-type="book">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Garrity</surname>
            <given-names>G.M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Holt</surname>
            <given-names>J.G.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <editors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Garrity</surname>
            <given-names>G.M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Boone</surname>
            <given-names>D.R.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Castenholz</surname>
            <given-names>R.W.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Genus II. Leptospirillum gen. nov.</article-title>
        <year>2001</year>
        <volume>1</volume>
        <edition>2</edition>
        <fpage>453</fpage>
        <source id="529">Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <publisher-name>Springer</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>New York</publisher-loc>
      </citation>
    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.7214">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Hippe</surname>
            <given-names>H.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Leptospirillum gen. nov. (ex Markosyan 1972), nom. rev., including Leptospirillum ferrooxidans sp. nov. (ex Markosyan 1972), nom. rev. and Leptospirillum thermoferrooxidans sp. nov. (Golovacheva et al. 1992)</article-title>
        <year>2000</year>
        <volume>50</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>501</fpage>
        <lpage>503</lpage>
        <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>1466-5026</issn>
        <essn>1466-5034</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/00207713-50-2-501</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10758852</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.5266">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Coram</surname>
            <given-names>N.J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Rawlings</surname>
            <given-names>D.E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Molecular relationship between two groups of the genus Leptospirillum and the finding that Leptospirillum ferriphilum sp. nov. dominates South African commercial biooxidation tanks that operate at 40 degrees C.</article-title>
        <year>2002</year>
        <volume>68</volume>
        <fpage>838</fpage>
        <lpage>845</lpage>
        <source id="228">Applied and Environmental Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Appl Environ Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0099-2240</issn>
        <essn>1098-5336</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11823226</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
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