| corynebacterium sputi sp. nov., isolated from the sputum of a patient with pneumonia. | a coryneform bacterium isolated from the sputum of a patient with pneumonia was characterized by phenotypic and molecular taxonomic methods. chemotaxonomic investigations revealed the presence of cell-wall chemotype iv and short chain mycolic acids consistent with the genus corynebacterium. comparative 16s rrna gene sequencing studies confirmed this assignment, with the organism forming a hitherto unknown subline within the genus associated with a subcluster containing corynebacterium hansenii, ... | 2008 | 19060075 |