Identification of selected isolates to species level was carried
out by the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis by the Deutsche
Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH
(DSMZ), Braunschweig, Germany. The identification was
furtherconfirmed using morphological,cultural,physiological
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and chemotaxonomical characteristics as described by Kawa-
moto (1989).