Volume 8, Number 2—February 2002
Perspective
Traditional and Molecular Techniques for the Study of Emerging Bacterial Diseases: One Laboratory’s Perspective
Table 2
Key issues for isolating main emerging bacteria
Medium |
Conditions for incubation |
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Group | Axenic specific medium | Living system (embryonated egg, cell line) | Low temperature (<37°C) | O2 and CO2 conditions | Extended incubation | ||
Alpha1 Proteo- bacteriae | Ehrlichia sp. Rickettsia sp. Chlamydia sp. | ELB agent (“Rickettsia felis”) (28°C) | Ehrlichia sp. Rickettsia sp. | ||||
Alpha2 Proteo- bacteriae | Afipia sp. | Afipia sp. Bartonella sp. | Bartonella bacilliformis (28°C) | Bartonella sp. | |||
Spirochetae | Borrelia sp. | Treponema pallidum | |||||
Delta-Xi Proteo- bacteriae | Campylobacter sp. (microaerophilic) Helicobacter sp. (microaerophilic) | Helicobacter pylori | |||||
Gamma Proteo- bacteriae | Legionella sp. | Legionella sp. | Yersinia pestis | ||||
Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium sp. | Mycobacterium leprae | Mycobacterium malmoense (microaerophilic) | Mycobacterium sp. | |||
Mycoplasmas | Mycoplasma sp. | Mycoplasma fermentans | |||||
Gram-positive bacteria | Tropheryma whipplei | Clostridium difficile (anaerobic) | Tropheryma whipplei |