Phenotypic identification of over 1000 isolates of anaerobic bacteria recovered between 1999 and 2008 in a major Costa Rican hospital

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1043-1047

  Rodriguez Cavallini E ^a   Vargas, P ^a   Rodriguez C ^a   Quesada Gomez C ^a   Gamboa Coronado, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Anaerobic bacteria; Biochemical identification; Clinical samples; Costa Rica

Indexed keywords

AGAR; HEMIN; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES ISRAELII; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BLOOD; BONE; BROTH DILUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM BIFERMENTANS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; COSTA RICA; EGGERTHELLA; EGGERTHELLA LENTA; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM LIMOSUM; FUSOBACTERIUM; GEMELLA MORBILLORUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INOCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARVIMONAS MICRA; PEPTONIPHILUS; PEPTONIPHILUS ASACCHAROLYTICUS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHENOTYPE; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROPIONIBACTERIUM GRANULOSUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE; VEILLONELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; EGGERTHELLA; FUSOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PORPHYROMONAS; POSIBACTERIA; PREVOTELLA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; VEILLONELLA;

EID: 79959932662     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03419.x     Document Type: Article

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