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Characteristics of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae isolated from purulent sputum samples.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2006
Keith Elaine R, Podmore Roslyn G, Anderson Trevor P, Murdoch David R
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Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae is a recently described streptococcus that is phenotypically and genetically distinct from Streptococcus pneumoniae and other viridans streptococci. Key characteristics of S. pseudopneumoniae are the absence of a pneumococcal capsule, insolubility in bile, resistance or indeterminate susceptibility to optochin when incubated in 5% CO2 but susceptibility to optochin when incubated in...
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