Diversity of Aerobic Bacteria Isolated from Oral and Cloacal Cavities from Free-Living Snakes Species in Costa Rica Rainforest

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Phylogenetic position of local bacterial isolates by maximum-likelihood topology based on a partial sequence of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. (a) Gram-positive tree, outgroup Corynebacterium vitaeruminis. (b) Gram-negative tree, outgroup Brucella suis. The first identity shown in each branch was obtained by the SeqMatch algorithm; the latter identity was obtained by VITEK biochemical analyses. Branches with only one identity stand for congruence between both SeqMatch and VITEK. In parentheses, there is our local isolate code or GenBank accession number.

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