Identities of Microbacterium spp. encountered in human clinical specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3646-3652

  Gneiding, Kathrina ^a   Frodl, Reinhard ^a   Funke, Guido ^a  

^a Gartner and Colleagues Laboratories   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

MICROBACTERIUM; MICROBACTERIUM ESTERAROMATICUM; MICROBACTERIUM FOLIORUM; MICROBACTERIUM HYDROCARBONOXYDANS; MICROBACTERIUM OLEIVORANS; MICROBACTERIUM OXYDANS; MICROBACTERIUM PARAOXYDANS; MICROBACTERIUM PHYLLOSPHAERAE; MICROBACTERIUM SP.; MICROBACTERIUM THALASSIUM; POSIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED MICROBACTERIUM SP.;

EID: 55849127386     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01202-08     Document Type: Article

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