Gram-positive anaerobic cocci - commensals and opportunistic pathogens

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 520-553

  Murphy, Elizabeth Carmel ^a   Frick, Inga Maria ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Finegoldia magna; Gram positive anaerobic cocci; Opportunistic pathogens; Skin infections; Taxonomic reclassification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FAF PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCAL ALBUMIN BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN L; SUFA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLOGY; COCCIDIA; COMMENSALISM; FINEGOLDIA; FINEGOLDIA MAGNA; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARVIMONAS; PARVIMONAS MICRA; PEPTONIPHILUS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS;

ANAEROCOCCUS; FINEGOLDIA; FINEGOLDIA MAGNA; PEPTONIPHILUS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84878961258     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12005     Document Type: Article

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