Case report: Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus: A new cause of human infection, inducing bacteremia in a patient on hemodialysis

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 393-400

  Ouyang, Jie ^a   Pei, Zhiheng ^b,c   Lutwick, Larry ^b   Dalai, Sharvari ^a   Yang, Living ^c   Cassai, Nicholas ^b   Sandhu, Kuldip ^b   Hanna, Bruce ^c   Wieczorek, Rosemary L ^a,b   Bluth, Martin ^d   Pincus, Matthew R ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; Bacteremia; Hemodialysis; Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus infection

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIBOSOME RNA; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACCILUS ALVEI; PAENIBACCILUS COAGULANS; PAENIBACCILUS GLUCANOLYTICUS; PAENIBACCILUS THIAMINOLYTICUS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS THIAMINOLYTICUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 55949093726     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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