Corynebacterium imitans sp. nov. isolated from patients with suspected diphtheria.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on August 01, 1997

Authors

G Funke1, A Efstratiou, D Kuklinska, R A Hutson, A De Zoysa, K H Engler, M D Collins

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland.funke@immv.unizh.ch

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