The genus Corynebacterium and other medically relevant coryneform-like bacteria

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3152-3158

  Bernard, Kathryn ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACILLI; BREVIBACTERIACEAE; CELLULOMONADACEAE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; DERMABACTERIACEAE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTRASPORANGIACEAE; LYMPHADENITIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBACTERIACEAE; MICROCOCCACEAE; MICROCOCCINEAE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMICROMONOSPORACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY; TEST STRIP; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATALASE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BACILLI (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84866441833     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00796-12     Document Type: Short Survey

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