@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-36-3-422, author = "DEVRIESE, LUC A. and HOMMEZ, JOZEF and KILPPER-BÄLZ, RENATE and SCHLEIFER, KARL-HEINZ", title = "Streptococcus canis sp. nov.: a Species of Group G Streptococci from Animals", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "1986", volume = "36", number = "3", pages = "422-425", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-36-3-422", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-36-3-422", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "β-Hemolytic group G streptococci from cows with mastitis and from dogs with different pathological conditions were characterized and named Streptococcus canis sp. nov. These animal group G strains were differentiated from Streptococcus dysgalactiae (group G strains of human origin, as well as group L strains and certain animal and human group C strains) by simple physiological and biochemical tests. Deoxyribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization showed that the S. canis strains differed from S. dysgalactiae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus equi, and Streptococcus salivarius. These organisms contain a rare cell wall peptidoglycan type, namely, Lys-Thr-Gly. The specific epithet of S. canis, which has been in use for many years in veterinary textbooks to designate group G strains isolated from dogs, was chosen for this proposed new species because it comprises animal but not human group G streptococci. The type strain is strain STR-T1 (= DSM 20715).", }