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In Vitro and In Vivo Studies on the Pertubation of Host Defence by Black-Pigmented Bacteroides Species

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Models of Anaerobic Infection

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The black-pigmented Bacteroides sp. have for a long time attracted the attention of bacteriologists because of their suspected role in the pathogenesis of polymicrobial infections. All anaerobic rods producing black-pigmented colonies when grown on blood agar were initially classified as one species, Bacterium melaninogenicum (1). Later, the name Bacteroides melaninogenicus was established (2). This species was subsequently divided by Holdeman and Moore (3) into three subspecies, melaninogenicus, intermedius, and asaccharolyticus. These subspecies proved, however, to be heterogeneous, and the following new species were created: B. melaninogenicus, B. loescheii and B. denticola from subspecies melaninogenicus (4); B. intermedius and B. corporis from subspecies intermedius (5); and B. asaccharolyticus and B. gingivalis from subspecies asaccharolyticus (6). This new classification has been of great help in recent studies on the pathogenic potential of these bacteria.

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Sundqvist, G., Carlsson, J. (1984). In Vitro and In Vivo Studies on the Pertubation of Host Defence by Black-Pigmented Bacteroides Species. In: Hill, M.J. (eds) Models of Anaerobic Infection. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6054-1_12

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