Corynebacterium aurimucosum sp. nov. and emended description of Corynebacterium minutissimum Collins and Jones (1983).

Exogenous coproporphyrin III production by Corynebacterium aurimucosum and Microbacterium oxydans in erythrasma lesions

“…The strain of C. aurimucosum isolated in this study was novel, as described by Yassin et al (2002). Strains originally designated CDC coryneform group 4 bacteria represent a heterogeneous group and include pigmented variants of C. aurimucosum.…”

Taxonomic characterization of nine strains isolated from clinical and environmental specimens, and proposal of Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum sp. nov.

“…Other species are recognized as opportunistic pathogens, and have been isolated from diverse clinical specimens, including the genito-urinary tract (Collins et al, 1999a;Funke et al, 1995;Furness et al, 1979), the respiratory tract (Riegel et al, 1995b(Riegel et al, , 1997bZimmermann et al, 1998), blood samples (Riegel et al, 1997a;Funke et al, 1997c) and surgical infections (Esteban et al, 1999;Yassin et al, 2002b). In the 2 years before this paper was written, nine novel species had been described, namely Corynebacterium capitovis (Collins et al, 2001a), Corynebacterium testudinoris and Corynebacterium felinum (Collins et al, 2001b), Corynebacterium freneyi (Renaud et al, 2001), Corynebacterium aurimucosum (Yassin et al, 2002a), Corynebacterium mooreparkense (Brennan et al, 2001), Corynebacterium appendicis (Yassin et al, 2002b), Corynebacterium efficiens (Fudou et al, 2002) and Corynebacterium spheniscorum (Goyache et al, 2003).…”

CorynebacteriumSpecies Isolated from Bone and Joint Infections Identified by 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

“…In this study, C. aurimucosum represented the second most frequently isolated species after C. striatum. As its identification is difficult and its description is recent (27), its pathogenic implication in human infections might be underestimated at this time. C. propinquum and C. pseudodiphteriticum, two phylogenetically related species, have been mostly recovered from the respiratory tract.…”

“…Thus, at this time it is difficult to evaluate particular bacterial species that have a specific potential to produce orthopedic-material-associated infections or to know what is needed for specific treatments (such as different durations of antibiotic therapy or the need of material removal). Moreover, recent identification of several new taxa and the increasing diversity of coryneform bacterial strains encountered in clinical specimens render phenotypic identification more difficult (1,11,13,26,27). Consequently, genotypic identification as an alternative or complementary method for bacterial taxonomy and for identification of new species (including Corynebacterium spp.)…”