Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming species of bacteria.
Its type strain is Co23 (= ATCC 700175 = DSM 11544).
It grows by coupling the oxidation of lactate to the reductive dechlorination of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate.
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