RT Book, Section A1 Levinson, Warren A1 Chin-Hong, Peter A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A. A1 Nussbaum, Jesse A1 Schwartz, Brian SR Print(0) ID 1190860262 T1 Gram-Positive Rods T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781264267088 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190860262 RD 2024/04/24 AB There are five medically important genera of gram-positive rods: Bacillus, Clostridium, Corynebacterium, Listeria, and Gardnerella. Bacillus and Clostridium form spores, whereas Corynebacterium, Listeria, and Gardnerella do not. Members of the genus Bacillus are aerobic, whereas those of the genus Clostridium are anaerobic (Table 17–1).