key: cord-0025543-14n33gwt authors: Doublier, Maxime; Raoult, Didier; Dubourg, Grégory title: An unusual Gram-positive spiral-shaped bacilli detected in a positive blood culture date: 2022-01-11 journal: Clin Microbiol Infect DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2022.01.001 sha: 9ff697dbc269b2782cd348d99d68b459fce225e6 doc_id: 25543 cord_uid: 14n33gwt nan Tech Corporation, Japan). Slides were prepared as previously described [2] . Ongoing 84 revolution in bacteriology: routine identification of bacteria by matrix-assisted laser 85 desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry Scanning Electron Microscope: A New Potential Tool to Replace Gram Staining for 89 Complementarity between targeted real-time specific PCR and conventional broad-range 92 16S rDNA PCR in the syndrome-driven diagnosis of infectious diseases