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Streptococcus bovis, a conspicuous streptococcus of cow dung and also occurring in human faeces, has proved difficult to classify. Biochemically it is a well-defined species (Orla Jensen), and although it has some of the characteristics of Lancefield‘s Group D streptococci, its serological identity has long been obscure because of its failure to yield a group serum. While many strains of Str. bovis reacted with Group D sera, a not inconsiderable proportion gave negative or equivocal results1,2,3, and until group sera for Str. bovis could be prepared its serological placing was necessarily left in abeyance.
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SHATTOCK, P. Serological Position of Streptococcus bovis. Nature 161, 318 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161318a0
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