Streptococcus hongkongensis sp. nov., isolated from a patient with an infected puncture wound and from a marine flatfish

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART7, 2013, Pages 2570-2576

  Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Curreem, Shirly O T ^b   Lin, Cherry C N ^c   Fung, Ami M Y ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c KWONG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; NUCLEOTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FLATFISH; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OLIVE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE WOUND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS HONGKONGENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PARAUBERIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPORCINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS; VOGES PROSKAUER TEST; WOUND;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLATFISHES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYLOGENY; PUNCTURES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYNOGLOSSIDAE; CYNOGLOSSUS ABBREVIATUS; PARALICHTHYS OLIVACEUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PARAUBERIS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 84879832926     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.045120-0     Document Type: Article

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