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The filamentous morphotype Eikelboom type 1863 is not a single genetic entity.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Apr 1997
Seviour E M, Blackall L L, Christensson C, Hugenholtz P, Cunningham M A, Bradford D, Stratton H M, Seviour R J
Abstract excerpt
Five isolates of a filamentous bacterial morphotype with the distinctive diagnostic microscopic features of Eikelboom Type 1863 were obtained from activated sludge sewage treatment plants in Victoria, Australia. On the basis of phenotypic evidence and 16S rDNA sequence data, these isolates proved to be polyphyletic. Two (Ben 06 and Ben 06C) are from the Chryseobacterium subgroup which is in the Cytophaga group,...
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