Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum

Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum
a species normally present in the respiratory tract, which closely resembles C. diphtheriae but is nontoxigenic; it is sometimes an opportunistic pathogen. Called also Hofmann bacillus.

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