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Abstract

Summary: Deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation was used to assess divergence in species of Citrobacter and Citrobacter-like strains. Typical strains of highly related. Antigenically atypical strains and most biochemically atypical strains showed a lower, but species level, of relatedness to typical C. . Four additional relatedness groups were detected. One of these corresponded to C. , including . A second contained .

A third group contained two indole strains which exhibited only 40 to 50 % relatedness to other groups of Citrobacter. The fourth group contained HS , lysine organisms that are more closely related to than to .

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