SUMMARY A pure bacterial culture remains essential for the study of its virulence, its
antibiotic susceptibility, and its genome sequence in order to facilitate the understanding …

Catalase-positive Gram-positive bacilli, commonly called “diphtheroids” or “coryneform”
bacteria were historically nearly always dismissed as contaminants when recovered from …

This review gathers recent information about genomic and transcriptomic studies in the
Corynebacterium genus, exploring, for example, prediction of pathogenicity islands and …

The genus Corynebacterium is a heterogeneous group of species comprising human and
animal pathogens and environmental bacteria. It is defined on the basis of several …

We have evaluated over a period of 18 months the use of 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA)
sequence analysis as a means of identifying aerobic gram-positive rods in the clinical …

Corynebacterium striatum is part of microbiota of skin and nasal mucosa of humans and has
been increasingly reported as the etiologic agent of community-acquired and nosocomial …

Abstract The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently published a new
laboratory guideline for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of infrequently encountered or …

ABSTRACT Higher proportions (91%) of 168 corynebacterial isolates were positively
identified by partial rpoB gene determination than by that based on 16S rRNA gene …

The revised Third Edition of The Prokaryotes, acclaimed as a classic reference in the field,
offers new and updated articles by experts from around the world on taxa of relevance to …

The aerobic actinomycetes are aerobic Gram‐positive rods, most of which exhibit branching
on microscopic evaluation. These organisms have been noted to cause significant …