Cutaneous infection caused by a novel Francisella sp

Laurel B Respicio-Kingry; Lori Byrd; Ashley Allison; Meghan Brett; Christine Scott-Waldron; Karen Galliher; Paul Hannah; Paul Mead; Jeannine M Petersen

doi:10.1128/JCM.01105-13

Cutaneous infection caused by a novel Francisella sp

J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Oct;51(10):3456-60. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01105-13. Epub 2013 Jul 31.

Authors

Laurel B Respicio-Kingry¹, Lori Byrd, Ashley Allison, Meghan Brett, Christine Scott-Waldron, Karen Galliher, Paul Hannah, Paul Mead, Jeannine M Petersen

Affiliation

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.

Abstract

A 69-year-old patient presented with a tender, thickly crusted skin lesion of 1 week's duration. A bacterial culture swab taken from the underlying granular tissue yielded a pure isolate of a Gram-negative coccobacillus, presumptively identified as a novel Francisella species via 16S rRNA and multilocus gene sequence analysis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
Francisella / classification
Francisella / genetics
Francisella / isolation & purification*
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / pathology*
Histocytochemistry
Humans
Male
Microscopy
Molecular Sequence Data
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Skin Diseases, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Skin Diseases, Bacterial / microbiology
Skin Diseases, Bacterial / pathology*

Substances

DNA, Bacterial
DNA, Ribosomal
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Associated data

GENBANK/KC243271
GENBANK/KC243272
GENBANK/KC243273
GENBANK/KC243274
GENBANK/KC243275
GENBANK/KC243276
GENBANK/KC243277
GENBANK/KC243278