Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides

Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides is an intrinsically vancomycin-resistant, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium, with type strain NCDO 768.[1]

Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Bacilli
Order:
Lactobacillales
Family:
Leuconostocaceae
Genus:
Leuconostoc
Species:
L. pseudomesenteroides

Farrow et al. 1989
Binomial name
Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides

References
  1. Farrow, J. A. E.; Facklam, R. R.; Collins, M. D. (1989). "Nucleic Acid Homologies of Some Vancomycin-Resistant Leuconostocs and Description of Leuconostoc citreum sp. nov. and Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 39 (3): 279–283. doi:10.1099/00207713-39-3-279. ISSN 0020-7713.

Further reading
  • Jofré M, Leonor; Sakurada Z, Andrea; Ulloa F, M. Teresa; Hormázabal O, J. Carlos; Godoy M, Viviana; Fernández O, Jorge; Gutiérrez M, Marcela; Monteverde O, M. Pilar; Castillo G, Marcela; Canales P, Ana (2006). "Infección por Leuconostoc en pacientes con síndrome de intestino corto, nutrición parenteral y alimentación enteral continua". Revista chilena de infectología. 23 (4). doi:10.4067/S0716-10182006000400008. ISSN 0716-1018.
  • Cappelli, Elisabete A., et al. "Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides as a cause of nosocomial urinary tract infections." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 37.12 (1999): 4124-4126.
  • Tholpady SS, Sifri CD, Sawyer RG, Hazen KC, Pruett TL, Bonatti H (2010). "Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides blood stream infection following liver transplantation". Ann Transplant. 15 (1): 61–6. PMID 20305321.


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