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coryneform

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coryneform /co·ry·ne·form/ (-form) denoting or resembling organisms of the family Corynebacteriaceae.
coryneform
denoting or resembling organisms of the family Corynebacteriaceae. See also diphtheroid.


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They have been observed in human specimens, and many new taxa of coryneform bacteria have been described (3).
In 2 published outbreaks, the Brucella isolate resisted decoloration and appeared as a gram-positive or gram-variable coccobacillus and thus was misidentified as micrococcus or a coryneform bacillus (14,29).
One interesting discovery that we made by using DNA-based detection was that Alloiococcus otitidis is extremely common in healthy ear canals; only Turicella otitidis and Coryneform bacteria are more common.
 
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