1887

Abstract

Nucleic acid hybridization studies together with a chemical cell wall analysis and physiological data indicated that some strains designated as II, sp. (“), and “” I, II, and IV are closely related to the type strain of These strains contained a directly cross-linked peptidoglycan with lysine as a diamino acid and ribitol and choline as characteristic cell wall constituents. We propose that these strains be classified as members of S. oralis. An emended description of is given. strains are genetically related to strains, and representatives of both species contain ribitol and choline in their cell walls.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-35-4-482
1985-10-01
2024-04-27
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/ijsem/35/4/ijs-35-4-482.html?itemId=/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-35-4-482&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Bridge P. D., Sneath P. H. A. 1982; Streptococcus gallinarum sp. nov. and Streptococcus oralis sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 32:410–415
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Bucher C., von Graevenitz A. 1984; Differentiation in throat cultures of group C and G streptococci from Streptococcus milleri with identical antigens. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. 3:44–45
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Colman G., Williams R. E. O. 1972; Taxonomy of some human viridans streptococci. 281–299 Wannamaker L. W., Matsen J. M. Streptococci and streptococcal diseases Academic Press, Inc.; New York:
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Coykendall A. L. 1977; Proposal to elevate the subspecies of Streptococcus mutans to species status, based on their molecular composition. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 27:26–30
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Coykendall A. L. 1983; Streptococcus sobrinus nom. rev. and Streptococcus ferus nom. rev.: habitat of these and other mutans streptococci. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 33:883–885
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Coykendall A. L., Specht P. A. 1975; DNA base sequence homologies among strains of Streptococcus sanguis. . J. Gen. Microbiol. 91:92–98
    [Google Scholar]
  7. De Ley J. 1970; Reexamination of the association between melting point, buoyant density, and chemical base composition of deoxyribonucleic acid. J. Bacteriol. 101:738–754
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Durack D. T., Petersdorf R. G. 1977; Changes in the epidemiology of endocarditis. 3–7 Kaplan E. L., Taranta A. V. Infective endocarditis—an American Heart Association Symposium American Heart Association; Dallas:
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Endl J., Seidl P. H., Fiedler F., Schleifer K. H. 1983; Chemical composition and structure of cell wall teichoic acids of staphylococci. Arch. Microbiol. 135:215–223
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Facklam R. R. 1977; Physiological differentiation of viridans streptococci. J. Clin. Microbiol. 5:184–201
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Facklam R. R., Wilkinson H. W. 1981; The family Streptococcaceae (medical aspects). 1572–1597 Starr M. P., Stolp H., Trüper H. G., Balows A., Schlegel H. G. The procaryotes 2 Springer-Verlag KG; Berlin:
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Hardie J. M., Bowden G. H. 1976; Physiological classification of oral viridans streptococci. J. Dent. Res 55:A166–A176
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Hardie J. M., Marsh P. D. 1978; Streptococci and the human oral flora. 157–206 Skinner F. A., Quesnel L. B. Streptococci Academic Press, Inc. (London), Ltd.; London:
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Hardie J. M., Whiley R. A., Sackin M. J. 1981; A numerical taxonomic study of oral streptococci. 59–60 Holm S. E., Christensen P. Basic concepts of streptococci and streptococcal diseases Reed Books Ltd.; Surrey, England:
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Horstmeier C, Washington J. A. II 1973; Microbiological study of streptococcal bacteremia. Appl. Microbiol. 26:589–591
    [Google Scholar]
  16. Huss V. A. R., Festl H., Schleifer K. H. 1983; Studies on the spectrophotometric determination of DNA hybridization from renaturation rates. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 4:184–192
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Jones D. 1978; Composition and differentiation of the genus Streptococcus, . 1–49 Skinner F. A., Quesnel L. B. Streptococci Academic Press, Inc. (London), Ltd.; London:
    [Google Scholar]
  18. Kaye D. 1976; Infecting microorganisms. 46–47 Kaye D. Infective endocarditis University Park Press; Baltimore:
    [Google Scholar]
  19. Kilpper R., Buhl U., Schleifer K. H. 1980; Nucleic acid homology studies between Peptococcus saccharolyticus and various anaerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-positive cocci. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 8:205–210
    [Google Scholar]
  20. Kilpper-Bälz R., Schleifer K. H. 1981; DNA-rRNA hybridization studies among staphylococci and some other gram-positive bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 10:357–362
    [Google Scholar]
  21. Kilpper-Bälz R., Schleifer K. H. 1984; Nucleic acid hybridization and cell wall composition studies of pyogenic streptococci. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 24:355–364
    [Google Scholar]
  22. Kilpper-Bälz R., Williams B. L., Lutticken R., Schleifer K. H. 1984; Relatedness of “Streptococcus milleri” with Streptococcus anginosus and Streptococcus constellatus. . Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 5:494–500
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Parker M. T., Ball L. C. 1976; Streptococci and aerococci associated with systemic infection in man. J. Med. Microbiol. 9:275–302
    [Google Scholar]
  24. Ruoff K. L., Kunz L. J. 1982; Identification of viridans streptococci isolated from clinical specimens. J. Clin. Microbiol. 15:920–925
    [Google Scholar]
  25. Ruoff K. L., Kunz L. J. 1983; Use of the rapid STREP system for identification of viridans steptococcal species. J. Clin. Microbiol. 18:1138–1140
    [Google Scholar]
  26. Schleifer K. H., Kandler O. 1967; Zur chemischen Zusam-mensetzung der Zellwand der Streptokokken. I. Die Aminosauresequenz des Mureins von Streptococcus thermophilus und Streptococcus faecalis. . Arch. Mikrobiol. 57:335–364
    [Google Scholar]
  27. Schleifer K. H., Kandler O. 1972; Peptidoglycan types of bacterial cell walls and their taxonomic implications. Bacteriol. Rev. 36:407–477
    [Google Scholar]
  28. Schleifer K. H., Kilpper-Bälz R. 1984; Transfer of Streptococcus faecalis and Streptococcus faecium to the genus Enterococcus nom. rev. as Enterococcus faecalis comb. nov. and Enterococcus faecium comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34:31–34
    [Google Scholar]
  29. Schleifer K. H., Kilpper-Bälz R., Kraus J., Gehring F. 1984; Relatedness and classification of Streptococcus mutans and “mutans-like” streptococci. J. Dent. Res. 63:1047–1050
    [Google Scholar]
  30. Schleifer K. H., Meyer S. A., Rupprecht M. 1979; Relatedness among coagulase-negative staphylococci: deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation and comparative immunological studies. Arch. Microbiol. 122:93–101
    [Google Scholar]
  31. Schleifer K. H., Stackebrandt E. 1983; Molecular systematics of prokaryotes. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 37:143–187
    [Google Scholar]
  32. Seelemann M. 1954; Biologie der Streptokokken. Verlag Hans Carl; Nuremburg:
    [Google Scholar]
  33. Stahl E. 1967; Dnnschichtchromatographie. Ein Laboratoriums handbuch. 298 Springer Verlag KG; Berlin:
    [Google Scholar]
  34. Takayama M., Itoh S., Nagasaka T., Tanimizu I. 1977; A new enzymatic method for determination of serum choline-containing phospholipids. Clin. Chim. Acta 79:93–98
    [Google Scholar]
  35. Trinder P. 1969; Determination of glucose in blood using glucose oxidase with an alternative electron acceptor. Ann. Clin. Biochem. 6:24–27
    [Google Scholar]
  36. Welborn P. P., Hadley W. K., Newburn E., Yajko D. M. 1983; Characterization of strains of viridans streptococci by deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization and physiological tests. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 33:293–299
    [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-35-4-482
Loading
/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-35-4-482
Loading

Data & Media loading...

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error