Publications by authors named "Alicia Chevalier"

is an aerobic Gram-positive coccus that grows as tiny alpha-hemolytic colonies. is a slow-growing facultative anaerobic Gram-positive rod. These bacteria are part of the urogenital microbiota of healthy patients, but can also be involved in urinary tract infections (UTIs), particularly in elderly men and young children.

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Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a severe infection that requires fast and accurate antibiotic therapy to improve the patient outcome. Direct bacterial identification using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry from ascitic fluid inoculated in blood culture bottles (BCBs) could therefore improve patients' management. We evaluated the impact of the implementation of this method for the treatment of patients.

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Bacillus cereus group species are widespread, Gram-positive, spore-forming environmental bacteria. B. cereus sensu stricto is one of the major causes of food poisoning worldwide.

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We report here the complete genome sequences of three Bacillus cereus group strains isolated from blood cultures from premature and immunocompromised infants hospitalized in intensive care units in three French hospitals. These complete genome sequences were obtained from a combination of Illumina HiSeq X Ten short reads and Oxford Nanopore MinION long reads.

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Nocardia takedensis was first isolated in 2005, from soil in Japan. We report here two cases of lymphangitis in France (2012-2017) caused by N. takedensis both occurring after skin injury while gardening, which enabled its inoculation.

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Background: The drug combination atovaquone-proguanil, is recommended for treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in France. Despite high efficacy, atovaquone-proguanil treatment failures have been reported. Resistance to cycloguanil, the active metabolite of proguanil, is conferred by multiple mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase (pfdhfr) and resistance to atovaquone by single mutation on codon 268 of the cytochrome b gene (pfcytb).

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Background: Urinary tract infections are known to be caused by bacteria, but the potential implications of archaea have never been studied in this context.

Methods: In two different university hospital centres we used specific laboratory methods for the detection and culture of archaeal methanogens in 383 urine specimens prospectively collected for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI).

Findings: Methanobrevibacter smithii was detected by quantitative PCR and sequencing in 34 (9%) of the specimens collected from 34 patients.

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