Streptococcus difficile is a nonhemolytic group B, type Ib streptococcus
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Streptococcus difficile is a nonhemolytic group B, type Ib Streptococcus.
Whole-cell protein electrophoretic analysis of the type strain of Streptococcus difficile (LMG 15799) revealed that this organism was indistinguishable from Streptococcus agalactiae strains. Although LMG 15799T (T = type strain) was originally described as serologically untypeable, we found that this strain was a group B streptococcus belonging to the capsular polysaccharide antigen type Ib gro...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0020-7713,1465-2102
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-1-331