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Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of Streptococcus porcinus isolated from human sources.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2005
Duarte Rafael S, Barros Rosana R, Facklam Richard R, Teixeira Lúcia M
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of 25 Streptococcus porcinus isolates recovered from human sources were investigated and compared to the characteristics of 17 reference strains obtained from nonhuman sources. All of the S. porcinus isolates were beta-hemolytic (wide zones), susceptible to vancomycin, gave positive results for the leucine aminopeptidase and l-pyrrolidonylarylamidase tests, and...
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