Publications
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| balneatrix alpica gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium associated with pneumonia and meningitis in a spa therapy center. | in 1987, an outbreak of pneumonia and meningitis caused by an unknown bacterium occurred in a spa therapy centre. nine isolates of this pathogen constituted a tight dna hybridization group. rrna-dna hybridization and 16s rrna sequencing showed that the studied bacteria represented a new branch in superfamily ii (= gamma subclass) of the proteobacteria, close to the genus oceanospirillum. the new bacterium was highly polymorphic and, in young cultures, had curved gram-negative cells, motile by po ... | 1993 | 8327781 |