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Corynebacterium group D2 ("Corynebacterium urealyticum") constitutes a new genomic species
P Riegel1, P A Grimont, D De Briel
1Institut de Bactériologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
Research in Microbiology
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
Twenty-one Corynebacterium group D2 ("C. urealyticum") strains were found to constitute a tight DNA hybridization group distinct from named Corynebacterium species. The strains of Corynebacterium group D2 had cell wall component type IV, short chain mycolic acids and G+C content of DNA of 65-66 mol %. Corynebacterium group D2 constitutes a genomic species which can be identified by phenotypic tests.