Bacterial Genus Gram Stain Lookup Table

A reference table of bacterial gram stain results by genus to allow faster filtering of bacterial results. This dataset has been maintained manually against the PHE SGSS database. If there are organisms missing, please raise and issue or push request on the epidm GitHub

Usage

genus_gram_stain

Format

A data frame with four columns

organism_genus

The bacterial genus

gram_stain

A character string to indicate POSITIVE or NEGATIVE type

gram_positive

A 0/1 flag to indicate if the genus is gram positive

gram_negative

A 0/1 flag to indicate if the genus is gram negative