Publications

the first case report of infective endocarditis caused by gemella taiwanensis.	gemella is a facultative anaerobic gram-positive coccus and a rare cause of infective endocarditis (ie). gram staining may eventually misidentify the organism, which tends to easily decolorize and manifest as either gram-negative or gram-variable. commercial biochemical tests are often used to identify gemella, but the methods they employ sometimes lack accuracy. a 52-year-old woman was diagnosed with gemella taiwanensis ie after initial identification of the pathogen as gemella haemolysans usin ...	2017	28385567
gemella parahaemolysans sp. nov. and gemella taiwanensis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical specimens.	four gram-staining-positive, catalase-negative, coccoid isolates, designated ntuh_1465(t), ntuh_2196, ntuh_4957 and ntuh_5572(t), were isolated from human specimens. the four isolates displayed more than 99.6% 16s rrna gene sequence similarity with gemella haemolysans atcc 10379(t), and 96.7 to 98.6% similarity with gemella sanguinis atcc 700632(t), gemella morbillorum atcc 27824(t) or gemella cuniculi ccug 42726(t). however, phylogenetic analysis of concatenated sequences of three housekeeping ...	2014	24664577