Cellulosimicrobium funkei: First report of infection in a nonimmunocompromised patient and useful phenotypic tests for differentiation from Cellulosimicrobium cellulans and Cellulosimicrobium terreum

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1175-1178

  Petkar, Hawabibee ^a   Li, Anthony ^a   Bunce, Nicholas ^a   Duffy, Kim ^a   Malnick, Henry ^b   Shah, Jayesh J ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOGEN; IMIPENEM; METHYLGLUCOSIDE; PENICILLIN G; RAFFINOSE; RIBOSE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; XYLOSE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACKACHE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM CELLULANS; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM FUNKEI; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM TERREUM; CONFUSION; FEVER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM CELLULANS; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM FUNKEI;

EID: 79952329211     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01103-10     Document Type: Article

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