By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Device Law Weekly -- New research on Gram-Positive Bacteria - Streptococcus is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Rostock, Germany, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Streptococcus pluranimalium as a novel human pathogen has been reported by several authors in various contexts. In all reported cases in humans the microorganism was detected by the Vitek2.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Rostock University Medical Center, “The great advances with the introduction of new analytical techniques such as MALDI-TOF or 16S rRNA analysis enabled a more detailed discrimination of pathogens such as these nonhemolytic streptococci. In the cases of such similar gene sequences such techniques are absolutely essential to identify the exact strain for this highly conserved 16S rRNA gene. However, until now neither a sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene nor PCR nor MALDI-TOF techniques could define Streptococcus pluranimalium in humans.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We conclude that according to our best present knowledge there exists no conclusive evidence for a human infection of Streptococcus pluranimalium even when using most advanced and exact identification techniques until now.”

For more information on this research see: RE: ‘Streptococcus pluranimalium: A novel human pathogen?’. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports , 2017;41():493-494. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; International Journal of Surgery Case Reports - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-surgery-case-reports/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting P. Pongratz, Rostock University Medical Center, Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Ernst-Heydemann-Strasse 6, 18057 Rostock, Germany. Additional authors for this research include M. Ebbers, H. Geerdes-Fenge and E.C Reisinger.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.10.067. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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CITATION: (2018-04-08), Research from Rostock University Medical Center Reveals New Findings on Streptococcus (RE: ‘Streptococcus pluranimalium: A novel human pathogen?’), Medical Device Law Weekly, 180, ISSN: 1551-5222, BUTTER® ID: 015410859

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