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Morphological features of large, smooth, white, non-mucoid beta-hemolytic colonies of Streptococcus canis. The microorganism was cultured on a sheep blood agar plate for 24 h at 35  C in 5% CO2.
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The patient-origin samples were cultured on a sheep blood agar plate for 24 h at 35  C in 5% CO2, resulting in the growth of large, smooth, white, non-mucoid beta-hemolytic colonies with group G carbohydrate antigens (Fig. 1).
Multi-alignment of our isolate (TA4) and other two strains of Streptococcus canis (321 324A and 341 4291B), generated using CLUSTALW version 2.1 (http://clustalw.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/).
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KF662396.1) (Fig. 2).