Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies pasteurianus (biotype II/2), a newly reported cause of adult meningitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2247-2249

  Sturt, Amy S ^a,b   Yang, Liying ^b   Sandhu, Kuldip ^c   Pei, Zhiheng ^b,c   Cassai, Nicholas ^c   Blaser, Martin J ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New York Harbor Veterans Health Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERMENTATION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS; TAXONOMY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PASTEURIANUS;

EID: 77952898147     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00081-10     Document Type: Article

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