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Clostridium lavalense sp. nov., a glycopeptide-resistant species isolated from human faeces.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Mar 2009
Domingo M-C, Huletsky A, Boissinot M, Hélie M-C, Bernal A, Bernard K A, Grayson M L, Picard F J, Bergeron M G
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Two vancomycin-resistant, strictly anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming organisms (strains CCRI-9842(T) and CCRI-9929) isolated from human faecal specimens in Québec, Canada, and Australia were characterized using phenotypic, biochemical and molecular taxonomic methods. Pairwise analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that both strains were closely related to each other genetically...
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