Cellular fatty acid composition and phenotypic and cultural characterization of CDC fermentative coryneform groups 3 and 5.

doi:10.1128/jcm.32.5.1217-1222.1994

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Cellular fatty acid composition and phenotypic and cultural characterization of CDC fermentative coryneform groups 3 and 5.

Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1994

Bernard K, Bellefeuille M, Hollis D G, Daneshvar M I, Moss C W

Abstract excerpt

Seventy strains of fermentative, asporogenous, gram-positive coccobacilli or short rods form two closely related groups which have been designated CDC fermentative coryneform groups 3 (32 strains, xylose fermenters) and 5 (38 strains, xylose nonfermenters). The two taxa are otherwise similar to e...

Topics

Actinomycetales
Actinomycetales Infections
Bacteremia
Fatty Acids
Female
Fermentation
Humans
Male
Phenotype
Species Specificity
Xylose

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