Clostridium clostridioforme and Atopobium minutum clinical isolates with vanB-type resistance in France

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3436-3438

  Marvaud, Jean Christophe ^a   Mory, Francine ^c,d   Lambert, Thierry ^a,b  

^a University Paris Sud   (France)

^b SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM MINUTUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CLOSTRIDIOFORME; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECUBITUS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LACTOBACILLUS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; SPINA BIFIDA; TISSUE NECROSIS; VANB GENE; VOMITING;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ATOPOBIUM MINUTUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CLOSTRIDIOFORME; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 80052223385     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00308-11     Document Type: Article

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