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Bacteroides buccae is among the few human oral species reported with an S-layer (Kornman and Holt 1981). The periodic arrangement of the lattice has been reported to be hexagonal (Ranta et al. 1983, Haapasalo et al. 1985, Sjögren et al. 1985).
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Kerosuo, E., Haapasalo, M., Lounatmaa, K., Ranta, H. (1988). Ultrastructural Comparison of Bacteroides heparinolyticus and Bacteroides buccae . In: Sleytr, U.B., Messner, P., Pum, D., Sára, M. (eds) Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73537-0_27
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