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Streptococcus sinensis sp. nov., a novel species isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2002
Woo Patrick C Y, Tam Dorothy M W, Leung Kit-Wah, Lau Susanna K P, Teng Jade L L, Wong Michelle K M, Yuen Kwok-Yung
Abstract excerpt
A bacterium was isolated from the blood culture of a patient with infective endocarditis. The cells were facultative anaerobic, nonsporulating, gram-positive cocci arranged in chains. The bacterium grows on sheep blood agar as alpha-hemolytic, gray colonies of 0.5 to 1 mm in diameter after 24 h of incubation at 37 degrees C in ambient air. Growth also occurs in 10 or 40% bile and on bile esculin agar but not in...
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