Some Strains in Search of a Genus--Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium, Nocardia or What?

SUMMARY In a continued search for a more suitable generic location for the species tentatively designated Mycobacterium rhodochrous (Overbeck) Gordon & Mihm, strains of some species of Corynebacterium, both animal and plant pathogens, were found to have the same morphology and the same, or nearly the same, physiological properties as strains of the species provisionally labelled M. rhodochrous. Additional tests and observations applied to...