 Most of these are classic drugs for Gram-positive bacteria and not routinely tested on Gram-negative bacteria.Hypoalbuminemia, increased pulse rate at the onset of infection, and central venous line infection were associated with a poor outcome.At the 2006 meeting of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, the organization's subcommittee on the taxonomy of "Flavobacterium" and "Cytophaga"-like bacteria named J.-F. Bernardet and B. Bruun as two key authorities on this bacterium.