Mycobacterium septicum sp. nov., a new rapidly growing species associated with catheter-related bacteraemia

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 575-581

  Schinsky, Mark F ^a,d   McNeil, Michael M ^a   Whitney, Anne M ^a   Steigerwalt, Arnold G ^a   Lasker, Brent A ^a   Floyd, Margaret M ^b   Hogg, Geoffrey G ^c   Brenner, Don J ^a   Brown, June M ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b HIV/Retrovirus Diseases Branch   (United States)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequence; DNA DNA hybridization; Mycobacterium fortuitum complex; Mycobacterium septicum sp. nov.; Sepsis bacteraemia

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; ARYLSULFATASE; CITRIC ACID; ERYTHROMYCIN; INOSITOL; MANNITOL; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROLYSIS; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SEPTICUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SENEGALENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SEPTICUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034026746     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-50-2-575     Document Type: Article

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