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Identification of lactic acid bacteria isolated from human blood cultures

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ŠVEC Pavel ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Alena SEDLÁČEK Ivo BEDNÁŘOVÁ Jana SNAUWAERT Cindy LEFEBVRE Karen VANDAMME Peter VANCANNEYT Marc

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source FEMS immunology and medical microbiology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1574-695X.2006.00199.x
Field Microbiology, virology
Keywords Lactobacillus; Leuconostoc; Weissella; blood culture; taxonomy
Description Fifteen lactic acid bacteria strains were isolated from blood cultures from 15 different patients in the Faculty Hospital in Brno, Czech Republic. All strains were identified using biochemical tests and rep-PCR using the (GTG)5 primer. Doubtful identification results were confirmed by whole-cell protein analysis. The strains were assigned to the genera Lactobacillus (eight strains representing seven species), Leuconostoc (six strains representing four species) and Weissella (one strain). Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed using the E-test and revealed high-level resistance to co-trimoxazol, metronidazole, vancomycin and teicoplanin, but nearly all strains were susceptible to erythromycin, clindamycin, ampicillin and penicillin.
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