Volume 8, Number 2—February 2002
Perspective
Traditional and Molecular Techniques for the Study of Emerging Bacterial Diseases: One Laboratory’s Perspective
Pierre Houpikian and Didier Raoult
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 | ||||
