Identification of some charcoal-black-pigmented CDC fermentative coryneform group 4 isolates as Rothia dentocariosa and some as Corynebacterium aunmucosum

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4189-4198

  Daneshvar, Maryam I ^a,b   Hollis, Dannie G ^a   Weyant, Robbin S ^a   Jordan, Jean G ^a   MacGregor, John P ^a   Morey, Roger E ^a   Whitney, Anne M ^a   Brenner, Don J ^a   Steigerwalt, Arnold G ^a   Helsel, Leta O ^a   Raney, Patti M ^a   Patel, Jean B ^a   Levett, Paul N ^a   Brown, June M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHARCOAL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; FATTY ACID; LEVOFLOXACIN; NITRATE; PENICILLIN G; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; ROTHIA;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CORYNEBACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCACEAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AURIMUCOSUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM NIGRICANS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; ROTHIA; ROTHIA DENTOCARIOSA; ROTHIA MUCILAGINOSA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 4644281585     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.9.4189-4198.2004     Document Type: Article

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