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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kim DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3347073 | biostudies-other | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of bacteriology 20120501 9
A new Peptoniphilus species has been isolated from samples from a patient who was scheduled for endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis. The isolate, Peptoniphilus rhinitidis 1-13(T) (KCTC 5985(T)), can use peptone as a sole carbon source and produce butyrate as a metabolic end product. This is the first report of the draft genome sequence of a novel species in the genus Peptoniphilus within the group of Gram-positive anaerobic cocci. ...[more]