Isolation of Arthrobacter spp. from clinical specimens and description of Arthrobacter cumminsii sp. nov. and Arthrobacter woluwensis sp. nov.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2356-2363

  Funke, Guido ^a   Hutson, Roger A ^b   Bernard, Kathryn A ^c   Pfyffer, Gaby E ^a   Wauters, Georges ^d   Collins, Matthew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; LYSINE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CELL WALL; CHEMOTAXONOMY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER CUMMINSII; ARTHROBACTER WOLUWENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029795601     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.10.2356-2363.1996     Document Type: Article

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