| streptobacillus hongkongensis sp. nov., isolated from patients with quinsy and septic arthritis, and emended descriptions of the genus streptobacillus and streptobacillus moniliformis. | two bacterial strains, hku33(t) and hku34, were isolated in hong kong from the pus aspirated from the right peritonsillar abscess of a patient with quinsy and the left elbow joint fluid of another patient with tophaceous gout and left elbow septic arthritis, respectively. the bacteria were gram-stain-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, non-haemolytic pleomorphic bacilli. they grew best on columbia agar with 5 % defibrinated sheep blood in an anaerobic environment or aerobic environment with ... | 2014 | 24912824 |