microbacterium aerolatum microbacterium aerolatum microbacterium aerolatum is a rod shaped and gram positive bacteria that was found in the vergilius chapel (virgilkapelle) of vienna, austria. this bacterium "shared the highest 16s rdna sequence similarities with members of the genus microbacterium, in particular microbacterium foliorum, microbacterium testaceum, microbacterium esteraromaticum, microbacterium keratanolyticum and microbacterium arabinogalactanolyticum." microbacterium aerolatum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: actinomycetota class: actinomycetia order: micrococcales family: microbacteriaceae genus: microbacterium species: m. aerolatum binomial name microbacterium aerolatumzlamala et al. 2002 type strain ccm 4955dsm 14217jcm 12137nbrc 103071v-73