Amoeba co-culture of soil specimens recovered 33 different bacteria, including four new species and Streptococcus pneumoniae

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 657-664

  Evstigneeva, Anna ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^a   Karpachevskiy, Lev ^b   La Scola, Bernard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COCULTURE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION;

LEGIONELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 62249193639     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.022970-0     Document Type: Article

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