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SUBMITTER: Hall V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC130680 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hall Val V Collins Mattew D MD Hutson Roger R Falsen Enevold E Duerden Brian I BI
Journal of clinical microbiology 20020901 9
Eight strains of a previously undescribed catalase-negative Actinomyces-like bacterium were recovered from human clinical specimens. The morphological and biochemical characteristics of the isolates were consistent with their assignment to the genus Actinomyces, but they did not appear to correspond to any recognized species. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed the organisms represent a hitherto unknown species within the genus Actinomyces related to, albeit distinct from, a group of species ...[more]