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SUBMITTER: Balsalobre L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1698351 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Balsalobre Luz L Hernández-Madrid Antonia A Llull Daniel D Martín-Galiano Antonio J AJ García Ernesto E Fenoll Asunción A de la Campa Adela G AG
Journal of clinical microbiology 20060913 11
Eight optochin-susceptible (Opt(s)) alpha-hemolytic (viridans) streptococcus isolates were characterized at the molecular level. These isolates showed phenotypic characteristics typical of both viridans streptococci and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Comparison of the sequence of housekeeping genes from these isolates with those of S. pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae suggested that the Opt(s) isolates corresponded to streptococci of the mitis g ...[more]