A taxonomic study of Gardnerella vaginalis (Haemophilus vaginalis) Gardner and Dukes 1955.
A taxonomic study of Gardnerella vaginalis (Haemophilus vaginalis) Gardner and Dukes 1955.
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阴道加德纳菌（阴道嗜血杆菌）Gardner 和 Dukes 的分类学研究，1955 年。
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10.1099/00221287-119-2-373
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1980
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Falkow,S
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Piot,P;vanDyck,E;Goodfellow,M;Falkow,S
Fifty-five strains received asHaemophilus vaginalisor as catalase-negative coryneform bacteria from the vagina together with 61 marker cultures were subjected to numerical phenetic analyses using 149 unit characters. The data were examined using the simple matching (SSM), Jaccard (SJ) and pattern (DP) coefficients and clustering was achieved using the average linkage algorithm. Cluster composition was not markedly affected by the coefficient used or by test error, estimated at 6.5 %. TheH. vaginalisstrains formed a tight cluster which was only distantly related to representatives of the generaArthrobacter, Cellulomonas, Corynebacterium sensu stricto, Erysipelothrix, Haemophilus, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, ListeriaandPropionibacteriumbut shared a high overall affinity to unclassified catalase-negative coryneforms which formed a discrete taxon, cluster 9. TheH. vaginalisstrains could be distinguished from the related strains in cluster 9 by several unrelated phenotypic characters.Using the S1 endonuclease assay, DNA-DNA hybridizations were performed with representative strains from the numerical study as well as with reference strains ofBifidobacteriumandActinomyces. Haemophilus vaginaliswas found to be a genotypically legitimate group and its DNA showed little homology with DNA from the marker strains tested. The DNA base composition ofH. vaginaliswas 42 to 44 mol % guanine plus cytosine. A new genus should be created to incorporate strains known asH. vaginalisorCorynebacterium vaginale.The nameGardnerella vaginalisproposed by Greenwood & is supported.
