Article
Corynebacterium confusum sp. nov., isolated from human clinical specimens.
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Oct 1998
Funke G, Osorio C R, Frei R, Riegel P, Collins M D
Abstract excerpt
Three strains of a previously unknown coryneform bacterium were isolated from two patients with foot infections and from a blood culture of a third patient. The three non-lipophilic strains exhibited very slow fermentative acid production from glucose but not from maltose or sucrose, nitrate redu...
Topics
- Abscess
- Adult
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacteremia
- Corynebacterium
- Corynebacterium Infections
- Foot Diseases
- Genes, rRNA
- Humans
- Male
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Osteomyelitis
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Sequence Analysis, DNA