Clinical significance of commensal gram-positive rods routinely isolated from patient samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2928-2936

  Leal, Sixto M ^a   Jones, Melissa ^a   Gilligan, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMMENSAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; JOINT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUCOSA; PROCEDURES; SKIN;

RNA 16S;

GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84997755133     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01393-16     Document Type: Article

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