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Four groups of coryneform bacteria, viz. soil arthrobacters, orange cheese coryneforms, orange sea-fish coryneforms and non-orange cheese coryneforms, were studied as regards morphological and physiological features.
The soil arthrobacters can be divided into a simplex and a globiformis group on the basis of their ability of utilizing a number of carbon sources. The group of the orange cheese coryneforms was found to be rather homogeneous, in contrast to the groups of the orange sea-fish coryneforms and the non-orange cheese coryneforms, some strains of which deviated from the others of their group as to the majority of the characteristics tested.
Mainly the physiological characteristics of each of the groups justify the division of the coryneforms into the four chief groups mentioned.
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Crombach, W.H.J. Morphology and physiology of coryneform bacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 40, 361–376 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399348
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