Article
Assignment of CDC weak oxidizer group 2 (WO-2) to the genus Pandoraea and characterization of three new Pandoraea genomospecies.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2001
Daneshvar M I, Hollis D G, Steigerwalt A G, Whitney A M, Spangler L, Douglas M P, Jordan J G, MacGregor J P, Hill B C, Tenover F C, Brenner D J, Weyant R S
Abstract excerpt
CDC weak oxidizer group 2 (WO-2) consists of nine phenotypically similar human clinical isolates received by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 1989 and 1998. Four of the isolates were from blood, three were from sputum, and one each was from bronchial fluid and maxillary sinus. All are aerobic nonfermentative, motile gram-negative rods with one to eight polar flagella per cell. All grew at 25...
Topics
- Aged
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Betaproteobacteria
- Child, Preschool
- Fatty Acids
- Female
- Genes, rRNA
- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Male
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Middle Aged