Clostridioides
| Clostridioides | |
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| SE micrograph of Clostridioides difficile colonies from a stool sample | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Peptostreptococcales |
| Family: | Peptostreptococcaceae |
| Genus: | Clostridioides Lawson and Rainey 2016 |
| Type species | |
| Clostridioides difficile (Hall & O'Toole 1935) Lawson et al. 2016 | |
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Clostridioides is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria, which includes Clostridioides difficile, a human pathogen causing an infectious diarrhea.