Ann Lab Med.  2023 Sep;43(5):520-523. 10.3343/alm.2023.43.5.520.

The First Case of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infection Caused by Kocuria rhizophila in Korea

• Kim Y
• Kim TS
• Park H
• Yun KW
• Park JH

• KMID: 2552003
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2023.43.5.520

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  Fig. 1 Phylogenetic analysis of Kocuria isolates (type and reference strains) based on 16S rRNA gene (1,442 nucleotide positions) and genome sequences. (A) Phylogenetic tree constructed by the maximum-likelihood method using the model GTR+I+G and Micrococcus luteus DSM 20030T (AJ536198) as the outgroup. Bootstrap values are expressed as percentages of 1,000 replications, and the scale bar indicates the estimated number of substitutions per base. GenBank accession numbers are indicated in parentheses. (B) Phylogenetic tree constructed using the Type Strain Genome Server and M. luteus DSM 20030T as the outgroup. Branch lengths are scaled in terms of genome BLAST distance phylogeny method (GBDP) distance formula d5. Numbers above branches are GBDP pseudo-bootstrap support values from 100 replications

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