Identification error of Aeromonas aquariorum: A causative agent of septicemia

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-109

  Morinaga, Yoshitomo ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Eugenin, Fadua Leila Latif ^b   Beaz Hidalgo, Roxana ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a,c   Figueras Salvat, Maria Josefa ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b FACULTAT DE MEDICINA I CIÈNCIES DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aeromonas aquariorum; Aeromonas species; Automatic identification systems; Misidentification; RpoD

Indexed keywords

ACT GENE; AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS AQUARIORUM; ALT GENE; ARTICLE; AST GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXICITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LD 50; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOD GENE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTICEMIA;

AEROMONAS; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84876701576     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.01.019     Document Type: Article

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