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Porphyromonas somerae sp. nov., a pathogen isolated from humans and distinct from porphyromonas levii.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2005
Summanen Paula H, Durmaz Bengül, Väisänen Marja-Liisa, Liu Chengxu, Molitoris Denise, Eerola Erkki, Helander Ilkka M, Finegold Sydney M
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Porphyromonas levii is an anaerobic, pigmented gram-negative bacillus originally isolated from bovine rumen. We describe 58 human clinical strains of P. levii-like organisms, isolated from various human clinical specimens that are phenotypically similar to the type strain of P. levii, a rumen isolate (ATCC 29147). Our biochemical, comparative 16S rRNA sequence analyses, and DNAlpha-DNA relatedness studies...
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