Comprehensive study of Corynebacterium freneyi strains and extended and emended description of Corynebacterium freneyi Renaud, Aubel, Riegel, Meugnier, and Bollet 2001

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 638-643

  Funke, Guido ^a   Frodl, Reinhard ^a  

^a Gartner and Colleagues Laboratories   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM FRENEYI; CORYNEBACTERIUM XEROSIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM FRENEYI; CORYNEBACTERIUM XEROSIS;

EID: 38949158422     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01491-07     Document Type: Article

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