Morphological changes induced by β-lactam antibiotics observed on Gram staining

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017 Jan;23(1):26. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.09.026. Epub 2016 Oct 5.

Authors

R Bitterman¹, M Paul², D Polak³, Y Geffen³

Affiliations

¹ Unit of Infectious Diseases, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: ro_oren@rambam.health.gov.il.
² Unit of Infectious Diseases, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
³ Microbiology Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.

PMID: 27720866
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.09.026

No abstract available

Keywords: Antibiotics; Gram stain; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Morphology; β-lactam.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Bacteremia
Ertapenem
Gentian Violet*
Humans
Klebsiella Infections / drug therapy*
Klebsiella Infections / microbiology
Klebsiella pneumoniae / cytology
Klebsiella pneumoniae / drug effects*
Male
Osteomyelitis / drug therapy*
Osteomyelitis / microbiology
Phenazines*
beta-Lactams / therapeutic use*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Gram's stain
Phenazines
beta-Lactams
Ertapenem
Gentian Violet