A paradigm for Streptococcus interspecies gene transfer is represented by the mosaic pbp
genes encoding the target enzymes for beta-lactam antibiotics, the penicillin-binding …

Streptococcus tigurinus is a novel species of viridans streptococci, shown to cause severe
invasive infections such as infective endocarditis, spondylodiscitis and meningitis. S …

Four Gram-stain-positive, catalase-negative, coccus-shaped bacterial strains were isolated
from multiple blood cultures of patients with endocarditis, meningitis and spondylodiscitis …

We recently described the novel species Streptococcus tigurinus sp. nov. belonging to the
Streptococcus mitis group. The type strain AZ_3aT of S. tigurinus was originally isolated from …

Background Traditionally, housekeeping and tissue specific genes have been classified
using direct assay of mRNA presence across different tissues, but these experiments are …

Alpha-hemolytic streptococci are very difficult to identify by phenotypic methods. In this
study, a pyrosequencing method for the identification of streptococcal species based on two …

The aim of this study was to investigate and clarify the ambiguous taxonomy of Actinomyces
naeslundii and its closely related species using state-of-the-art high-throughput sequencing …

Oral streptococci have been associated with systemic diseases, including infective
endocarditis and neutropenic bacteremia. We analyzed 58 recent oral streptococcal …

Aims: To compare accuracy of genus and species level identification of presumptive
enterococci isolates from the marine environment using conventional biochemical testing …

Two pairs of species-specific PCR primers targeting the housekeeping groEL gene, Spa146f-
Spa525r and Spa93f-Spa525r, were designed to quantify human oral and fecal …