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Case Reports
. 2015 Oct 22:8:75-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.10.004. eCollection 2015 Nov.

First case of Francisella bacteraemia in Western Australia

Max Aravena-Román  1 , Adam Merritt  2 , Timothy J J Inglis  1
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First case of Francisella bacteraemia in Western Australia

Max Aravena-Román et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

Francisella species are Gram-negative, nonmotile, pleomorphic coccobacilli, facultative intracellular fastidious bacteria. We report the isolation of a Francisella-like species from a blood culture collected from a 44-year-old bacteraemic patient in Perth, Western Australia. The organism was identified to species level by 16S rRNA sequencing and by fatty acid methyl esters analysis. The strain genotypically resembled Francisella hispaniensis, a species previously isolated from human blood in Spain.

Keywords: Fatty acids; Francisella; gene sequencing; sepsis; taxonomy.

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Neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree derived from 16S rRNA sequences showing position of strain 2008651S (1419 nt). Bar = 0.005 substitutions per nucleotide.
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