| corynebacterium canis sp. nov., isolated from a wound infection caused by a dog bite. | a non-lipophilic, coryneform bacterium isolated from a patient's wound caused by a dog bite was characterized by phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular genetic methods. chemotaxonomic features suggested assignment of the unknown bacterium to the genus corynebacterium. the isolate exhibited the following unusual features, which made it possible to phenotypically differentiate it from all other medically relevant corynebacteria: the gram stain showed some very filamentous rods (>15 μm in length) ... | 2010 | 20008112 |