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| Species: | D. pneumosintes
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| Dialister pneumosintes (Olitsky and Gates, 1921) emend. Jumas-Bilak et al., 2005
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Dialister pneumosintes (formerly named Bacteroides pneumosintes) is a nonfermentative, anaerobic, gram-negative rod that grows with small, circular, transparent, shiny, smooth colonies on blood agar. D. pneumosintes has been recovered from deep periodontal pockets, but little is known about the relationship between the organism and destructive periodontal disease.[1]