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Isolation and characterization of a black-pigmented Corynebacterium sp. from a woman with spontaneous abortion.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2001
Shukla S K, Vevea D N, Frank D N, Pace N R, Reed K D
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An unusual black-pigmented coryneform bacterium was isolated from the urogenital tract of a woman who experienced a spontaneous abortion during month 6 of pregnancy. Biochemical and chemotaxonomic analyses demonstrated that the unknown bacterium belonged to the genus Corynebacterium. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA sequences (GenBank accession no. AF220220) revealed that the organism was a member of a...
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