Clostridium scindens

Clostridium scindens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Clostridiales
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	C. scindens
Binomial name
Clostridium scindens Hall & O'Toole, 1935

Clostridium scindens is a species of bacteria in the genus Clostridium. Samples of this species were first isolated from human feces.

Clostridia (members of the genus Clostridium) are anaerobic, motile bacteria, ubiquitous in nature, and especially prevalent in soil. Under the microscope, they appear as long, irregular (often drumstick- or spindle-shaped) cells with a bulge at their terminal ends.

C. scindens is capable of converting primary bile acids to toxic secondary bile acids, as well as converting glucocorticoids to androgens by side-chain cleavage.

C. scindens may become established in the human colon, and its presence is associated with resistance to C. difficile infection, due to production of seconadry bile acids which inhibit the growth of “C. difficile”.

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