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Case Reports
. 2013 Nov;51(11):3903-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01497-13. Epub 2013 Sep 11.

Novel fastidious, partially acid-fast, anaerobic Gram-positive bacillus associated with abscess formation and recovered from multiple medical centers

S M Harrington  1 , M Bell, K Bernard, P Lagacé-Wiens, A N Schuetz, B Hartman, J R McQuiston, D Wilson, M Lasalvia, B Ng, S Richter, A Taege
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Novel fastidious, partially acid-fast, anaerobic Gram-positive bacillus associated with abscess formation and recovered from multiple medical centers

S M Harrington et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

We report a novel anaerobe causing abscess in four patients at three hospitals. In the clinical specimen, bacilli were branching, Gram positive, and acid fast. The organism grew slowly and was not identified by 16S rRNA sequencing. Our findings support the description of a new genus and species of the suborder Corynebacterineae.

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Clinical specimen from spinal abscess (case 1; CCF-01). (a) Gram stain, ×500 magnification; (b) modified Kinyoun stain, ×1,000 magnification.
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16S rRNA alignment of the suborder Corynebacterineae, illustrating the novel status of NML 120705 and CCF-01 (boldface). Alignment was done using ClustalW, and relationship was inferred using the neighbor-joining algorithm from MEGA5.1. The scale represents 0.01 substitution per nucleotide position. The type species of each genus in the suborder is shown, with Dietzia as the closest genus.
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