Microbiological characteristics of a novel species most closely related to 'Bergeyella cardium' as a pathogen of infectious endocarditis

• Li-Na Guo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Na Guo, Ying Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Ying Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Na Guo, Ying Li

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Po-Ren Hsueh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Peng Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yu-Pei Zhao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  * E-mail: xycpumch@139.com (YCX); zhao8028@263.net (YPZ)

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Ying-Chun Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xycpumch@139.com (YCX); zhao8028@263.net (YPZ)

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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