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The Genus Cardiobacterium

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The genus Cardiobacterium consists of one species, Cardiobacterium hominis, originally designated “group II D organisms” until further described and named by Slotnick and Dougherty (1964). This organism is a fastidious, facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile, pleomorphic Gram-negative rod with a fermentative type of metabolism.

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  1. Sydney M. Harvey
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  1. Emory University, 105 Bay Colt Road, 30201, Alpharetta, GA, USA

    Albert Balows

  2. Institute for Microbiology, University of Bonn, D-5300, Bonn 1, Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Martin Dworkin

  4. TNO Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2600 AE, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wim Harder

  5. Department of Microbiology, Technical University, D-8000, Munich 2, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

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Harvey, S.M., Greenwood, J.R. (1992). The Genus Cardiobacterium . In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_19

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