Use of enzyme tests in characterization and identification of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-positive cocci

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 318-340

  Bascomb, Shoshana ^a   Manafi, Mammad ^b  

^a University of Vienna ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCOSIDASE; PEPTIDASE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENOTYPE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031970363     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.11.2.318     Document Type: Review

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