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SUBMITTER: Drancourt M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC404640 | biostudies-literature | 2004 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Drancourt M M Berger P P Raoult D D
Journal of clinical microbiology 20040501 5
Clinical microorganisms isolated during a 5-year study in our hospital that could not be identified by conventional criteria were studied by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Each isolate yielded a > or =1,400-bp sequence containing <5 ambiguities which was compared with the GenBank 16S rRNA gene library; 1,404 such isolates were tested, and 120 were considered unique (27 isolates) or rare (< or =10 cases reported in the literature) human pathogens. Eleven new species, "Actinobaculum massiliae," ...[more]