Identities of Arthrobacter spp. and Arthrobacter-like bacteria encountered in human clinical specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2980-2986

  Mages, Irene S ^a   Frodl, Reinhard ^a   Bernard, Kathryn A ^b   Funke, Guido ^a,c  

^a Dr Gartner and Colleagues Laboratory   (Germany)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Gartner and Colleagues Laboratories   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROBACTER; BREVIBACTERIUM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; YOUNG ADULT;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER AURESCENS; ARTHROBACTER CUMMINSII; ARTHROBACTER OXYDANS; BRACHYBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM; LEUCOBACTER; MICROBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOCLAVIBACTER;

EID: 53649094580     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00658-08     Document Type: Article

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