Publications

comparison of three commercial rapid identification systems for the unusual gram-positive cocci dolosigranulum pigrum, ignavigranum ruoffiae, and facklamia species.	we evaluated three rapid identification systems-the biomerieux rapid id 32 strep (id32), the bbl crystal rapid gram-positive identification (crystal), and the remel ids rapid str (ids) systems-for their ability to identify 7 strains of alloiococcus otitidis, 27 strains of dolosigranulum pigrum, 3 strains of ignavigranum ruoffiae, and 18 strains of 4 different facklamia species. since none of these six species of gram-positive cocci are included in the identification databases for these systems, ...	2000	10834950
ignavigranum ruoffiae sp. nov., isolated from human clinical specimens.	two strains of a hitherto undescribed gram-positive catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccus isolated from human sources were characterized by phenotypic and molecular taxonomic methods. comparative 16s rrna gene sequencing studies demonstrated the unknown strains were genealogically identical, and constitute a new line close to, but distinct from, the genera facklamia and globicatella. the unknown bacterium was readily distinguished from facklamia species and globicatella sanguinus by ...	1999	10028250