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The Genus Corynebacterium--Medical

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Phylogeny and Taxonomy

The genus Corynebacterium is a member of the class Actinobacteria (high G+C Gram-positive bacilli), subclass Actinobacteridae, order Actinomycetales, suborder Corynebacterineae and family Corynebacteriaceae, which also includes the genus Turicella (Stackebrandt et al., 1997). This designation is based on extensive 16S rRNA gene sequencing data which demonstrated that the genus Corynebacterium is most closely related to non-acid-fast, partially acid-fast or acid-fast genera of the suborder Corynebacterineae, which also includes the families (genus/genera) Dietziaceae (Dietzia), Gordoniaceae (Gordonia and Skermania), Mycobacteriaceae (Mycobacterium), Nocardiaceae (Nocardia and Rhodococcus), Tsukamurellaceae (Tsukamurella) and Williamsiaceae (Williamsia) (Funke et al., 1994; Pascual et al., 1995; Ruimy et al., 1995; Chun et al., 1997; Stackebrandt et al., 1997; Kämpfer et al., 1999).

Currently, the genus Corynebacteriumconsists of 59 validly described species, of...

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  1. Alexander von Graevenitz
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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin Professor Dr. (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

    Stanley Falkow

  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  4. Department of Microbiology, Technical University Munich, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

  5. DSMZ- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

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von Graevenitz, A., Bernard, K. (2006). The Genus Corynebacterium--Medical. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30743-5_31

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