Halomonas, a newly recognized human pathogen causing infections and contamination in a dialysis center: Three new species

Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 244-249

  Stevens, David A ^a,b,c,d   Hamilton, John R ^c   Johnson, Nancy ^b   Kim, Kwang Kyu ^e   Lee, Jung Sook ^e  

^a Divisions of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Department of Infection Control ^*  (United States)

^c SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COLONY FORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS HAMILTONII; HALOMONAS JOHNSONIAE; HALOMONAS STEVENSII; HEMODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HALOMONAS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 67651121836     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3181aede29     Document Type: Article

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