Reidentification of Streptococcus bovis isolates causing bacteremia according to the new taxonomy criteria: Still an issue?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3228-3233

  Romero, Beatriz ^a,b   Morosini, María Isabel ^a,b   Loza, Elena ^a,b   Rodríguez Baños, Mercedes ^a   Navas, Enrique ^a   Cantón, Rafael ^a,b   Del Campo, Rosa ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

16S RRNA GENE; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RELIABILITY; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SODA GENE; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS LUTETIENSIS; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS SUBSP. GALLOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTARIUS SUBSP. INFANTARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS LUTETIENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PASTEURIANUS;

EID: 80052238627     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00524-11     Document Type: Article

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