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Polyphasic taxonomic approach in the description of Alishewanella fetalis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a human foetus.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2000
Vogel B F, Venkateswaran K, Christensen H, Falsen E, Christiansen G, Gram L
Abstract excerpt
A taxonomically unique bacterium is described on the basis of a physiological and biochemical characterization, fatty acid profiling and sequence analyses of 16S rRNA and gyrase B (gyrB) genes. This non-motile, non-fermentative bacterium was isolated from a human foetus in Uppsala, Sweden, and originally misidentified as a Shewanella putrefaciens by conventional biochemical testing. The bacterium grew well at...
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