title: Arthrobacter scleromae sp. nov. isolated from human clinical specimens.
abstract: A gram-positive, coryneform bacterium was isolated from swollen scleromata of a dermatosis patient. An analysis of its phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, and genotypic characteristics showed that this bacterium is closely associated with Arthrobacter oxydans and Arthrobacter polychromogenes but that it belongs to a distinct species, for which the name Arthrobacter scleromae sp. nov. is proposed.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China. huangy@im.ac.cn
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Naixin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Liming
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhiheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: You
authors.forename: Fulai
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001173:Arthrobacter / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001483:Base Sequence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000382:microbiology*