| Journal: | The brazilian journal of infectious diseases |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000290995 |
| ISSN: | 1413-8670 |
| Authors: | Cantarelli, Vlademir Vicente1 Brodt, Teresa Cristina. Z2 Secchi, Carina Inamine, Everton Pereira, Fabiana de Souza Pilger, Diogo Andre |
| Institutions: | 1Laboratorio Weinmann LTDA, Secao de Biologia Molecular, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil 2Laboratorio Weinmann LTDA, Secao de Microbiologia, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Season: | Dic |
| Volumen: | 10 |
| Number: | 6 |
| Pages: | 416-418 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Experimental |
| English abstract | Corynebacterium species have often been considered normal skin flora or contaminants; however, in recent years they have been increasingly implicated in serious infections. Moreover, many new species have been discovered and old species renamed, especially after molecular biology techniques were introduced. Corynebacterium mucifaciens is mainly isolated from blood and from other normally-sterile body fluids; it forms slightly yellow, mucoid colonies on blood agar. We report a fatal case of bacteremia due to an atypical strain of C. mucifaciens. This strain had atypical colony morphology; analysis of the 16S rRNA gene was used to define the species |
| Disciplines: | Medicina, Biología |
| Keyword: | Sistema cardiovascular, Bacterias, Genética, Bacteremia, Infección sanguínea, Corynebacterium mucifaciens |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Biology, Cardiovascular system, Bacteria, Genetics, Bacteremia, Blood infection, Corynebacterium mucifaciens |
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