A comparison of serum bactericidal activity and phenotypic characteristics of bacteremic, pneumonia-causing strains, and colonizing strains of Branhamella catarrhalis.

doi:10.1016/0002-9343(90)90258-f

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A comparison of serum bactericidal activity and phenotypic characteristics of bacteremic, pneumonia-causing strains, and colonizing strains of Branhamella catarrhalis.

The American journal of medicine - 14 May 1990

Jordan K L, Berk S H, Berk S L

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Four blood isolates, 12 pneumonia isolates, and seven colonizing isolates of Branhamella catarrhalis were compared with respect to their ability to grow in normal human serum and in convalescent serum of a patient with B. catarrhalis bacteremia. Disease-causing isolates showed seven of 16 serum-r...

Topics

Blood Bactericidal Activity
Colistin
Hemagglutination Tests
Humans
Moraxella catarrhalis
Phenotype
Pneumonia
Sputum
Trypsin
beta-Lactamases

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