Most Corynebacterium xerosis strains identified in the routine clinical laboratory correspond to Corynebacterium amycolatum

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1124-1128

  Funke, Guido ^a   Lawson, Paul A ^b   Bernard, Kathryn A ^c   Collins, Matthew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029917923     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.5.1124-1128.1996     Document Type: Article

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