Polyphasic Approach to the Classification and Identification of Gardnerella vaginalis and Unidentified Gardnerella vaginalis-Like Coryneforms Present in Bacterial Vaginosis

¹Department of Microbiology, University Hospital UIA, Antwerp, Ghent, Belgium
²University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
³Culture Collection, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
⁴Department of Microbiology, National Research Center for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany
⁵Culture Collection of the Laboratorium voor Microbiologic Gent, Ghent, Belgium
⁶Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire d'Ecologie et de Physiologie du Système Digestif, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France