Assignment of brevibacterium stationis (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Breed 1953 to the genus Corynebacterium, as Corynebacterium stationis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Corynebacterium to include isolates that can alkalinize citrate

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 874-879

  Bernard, Kathryn A ^a,b   Wiebe, Deborah ^a   Burdz, Tamara ^a   Reimer, Aleisha ^a   Ng, Betty ^a   Singh, Cathleen ^b   Schindle, Samantha ^b   Pacheco, Ana Luisa ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREVIBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM STATIONIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STATIONIS; GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; BREVIBACTERIUM; CITRIC ACID; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BREVIBACTERIUM STATIONIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMMONIAGENES;

EID: 77950624512     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.012641-0     Document Type: Article

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