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Case Reports
. 2003 Jun;41(6):2777-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.6.2777-2778.2003.

Corynebacterium freneyi bacteremia

Amélie Auzias  1 , Claude Bollet, Raouf Ayari, Michel Drancourt, Didier Raoult
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Corynebacterium freneyi bacteremia

Amélie Auzias et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Jun.

Abstract

Corynebacterium freneyi is a recently described alpha-glucosidase-positive species of the genus CORYNEBACTERIUM: To our knowledge, there is no description of human infection due to this species. We report on a case of bacteremia due to C. freneyi following vascular surgery.

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FIG. 1.
Dendrogram obtained by analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences. Corynebacterium diphtheriae was used as the outgroup.
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