Bacteroides Species associated with infection - B. caccae, B. capillosus, B. coagulans, B. distasonis, B. eggerthii, B. forsythus, B. fragilis, B. merdae, B. ovatus, B. putredinis, B. pyogenes, B. splanchinicus, B. stercoris, B. tectus, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. uniformis, B. ureolyticus, B. vulgatus Reported infections - abscesses, bacteraemia, bite infections, wound infections, chronic otitis media, pelvic inflammatory disease Reported susceptibilities and treatments - metronidazole, ureidopenicillins, carbapenems Notes - resistance to metronidazole and beta-lactams reported - many species are of uncertain taxonomic position - some taxa, previously classified as Bacteroides spp. have been reclassified in the genera Anaerorhabdus, Campylobacter, Dichelobacter, Mitsuokella, Porphyrimonas and Prevotella, Tissierella References - de Carvalho, C.B., Moreira, J.L., Ferreira, M.C. (1996). Epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of B. fragilis group organisms isolated from clinical specimen and human intestinal microbiota. Rev. Inst. Med. trop. Sao Paulo. 38, 329-335. - Rasmussen, B.A., Bush, K., Tally, F.P. (1993). Antimicrobial resistance in Bacteroides. Clin. infect. Dis. 16(S4), 390-400.
