Article
Corynebacterium mucifaciens sp. nov., an unusual species from human clinical material.
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Oct 1997
Funke G, Lawson P A, Collins M D
Abstract excerpt
Eight strains of a previously undescribed coryneform bacterium had been isolated from human clinical material over a 5-year period. Colonies of the unknown coryneform bacterium had an unusual appearance as they were slightly yellowish and very mucoid. Biochemical and chemotaxonomic characterizati...
Topics
- Corynebacterium
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Microscopy, Electron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid