Characterisation of Exiguobacterium aurantiacum isolates from blood cultures of six patients

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 946-948

  Pitt, Tyrone L ^a   Malnick, H ^a   Shah, J ^a   Chattaway, M A ^a   Keys, C J ^a   Cooke, F J ^b   Shah, H N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Exiguobacterium aurantacum; Human infections; Identification; Mass spectrum profiles; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMPICILLIN; CATALASE; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FATTY ACID; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXIGUOBACTERIUM AURANTIACUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLI (CLASS); EXIGUOBACTERIUM; EXIGUOBACTERIUM AURANTIACUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34547841266     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01779.x     Document Type: Article

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