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Chryseobacterium hominis sp. nov., to accommodate clinical isolates biochemically similar to CDC groups II-h and II-c.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Nov 2007
Vaneechoutte Mario, Kämpfer Peter, De Baere Thierry, Avesani Véronique, Janssens Michèle, Wauters Georges
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A collection of eight clinical strains from Belgian hospitals and three clinical strains of the CCUG collection were characterized biochemically as being similar to CDC groups II-h and II-c; the latter differs from group II-h only by positivity for sucrose acidification. These 11 strains were found to cluster according to 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity at a level of >or=99.5%, and on the basis of their...
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