Ann Lab Med.
2016 May;36(3):281-283. 10.3343/alm.2016.36.3.281.
Two Cases of Clostridium tertium Infection and Successful Identification of the Organism by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Analysis
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- 1Project Research Center for Nosocomial Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. jyumiko@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
- 2Section of Infection Diseases, Laboratory Division of Clinical Support, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 3Research Facility, Hiroshima University Faculty of Dentistry, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 4Division of Laboratory Medicine, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 5Department of Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
- KMID: 2373544
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2016.36.3.281
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Fig. 1 Light microscope observation of Gram stain preparations. (A) Gram stain of aerobic blood cultures showed Gram-negative bacilli (×1,000). (B) Gram stain of colonies on Brucella HK agar plates showed an oval spore on the end of gram-variable bacilli (×1,000).
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