Corynebacterium imitans sp. nov. isolated from patients with suspected diphtheria

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1978-1983

  Funke, Guido ^a   Efstratiou, Androulla ^b   Kuklinska, Danuta ^d   Hutson, Roger A ^c   De Zoysa, Aruni ^b   Engler, Kathryn H ^b   Collins, Matthew D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM IMITANS; CORYNEFORM BACTERIUM;

EID: 0030756233     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.8.1978-1983.1997     Document Type: Article

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