fastidious organism

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a bacterial organism with precise nutritional and environmental requirements.

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Bartonella henselae is a fastidious organism commonly known for causing cat scratch disease.

Bartonella Endocarditis Mimicking Crescentic Glomerulonephritis with PR3-ANCA Positivity

Two reasons were explained in patients with IE that blood culture was negative: chronic antibiotic therapy and fastidious organism that in our case seems to be due to recent antibiotic therapy [15].

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Infective Endocarditis Presented with Unusual Intracardiac Mass

aureus confirmed a nutritionally fastidious organism (Figure 2).

A Dual Case of Peritonitis and Central Nervous System Infection Caused by Nutritionally Variant Streptococcal Species

jejuni, a fastidious organism, in dairy A raw milk; the isolate matched the cluster pattern.

Campylobacter jejuni infections associated with raw milk consumption--Utah, 2014

Historically, the process of identification of an organism could take from days for a routine organism to weeks, in the case of a fastidious organism. Mass Spectrometry, an old chemistry technique of identifying a compound by separating it into its components, has recently been adapted as a new approach to identifying microbes.

MALDI-ToF: one lab's experience

As part of its strategy as a secondary infectant, Brett is a nutritionally fastidious organism lacking the ability to synthesize for itself many micronutrients.

Integrated Brett Management

Background & objectives: The reason for lack of data on burden ofHaemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in developing countries was mainly failure of detection of this fastidious organism in laboratories.

Addition of isovitalex in chocolate agar for the isolation of Haemophilus influenzae

However, Bordetella pertussis is a fastidious organism and negative cultures do not rule out disease.

Pertussis PCR testing at the Vermont Department of Health Laboratory

Fastidious organism Organism that requires numerous complex nutrients to grow.

Glossary

This fastidious organism, which is often resistant to clindamycin, colonizes the oropharynx of approximately 15% of healthy toddler children.

Kingella kingae emerging

This fastidious organism grows slowly, and its identification requires special nutritionally supported media.

Glandular tularemia in a Native American child

genitalium, a fastidious organism for which culture takes far too long to yield medically actionable results.