Identification of lactic acid bacteria isolated from human blood cultures

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 192-196

  Švec, Pavel ^a   Ševčíková, Alena ^b   Sedláček, Ivo ^a   Bednářová, Jana ^b   Snauwaert, Cindy ^c   Lefebvre, Karen ^c   Vandamme, Peter ^d   Vancanneyt, Marc ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Lactobacillus; Leuconostoc; Taxonomy; Weissella

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LACTIC ACID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LEUCONOSTOC; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; WEISSELLA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS; LEUCONOSTOC; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33846969577     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2006.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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