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Case Reports
. 2006 Dec;44(12):4598-600.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01453-06. Epub 2006 Sep 27.

First case of bacteremia and multifocal cellulitis due to Helicobacter canis in an immunocompetent patient

Corinne Leemann  1 , Eleonora Gambillara, Guy Prod'hom, Katia Jaton, Renato Panizzon, Jacques Bille, Patrick Francioli, Gilbert Greub, Emmanuel Laffitte, Philip E Tarr
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First case of bacteremia and multifocal cellulitis due to Helicobacter canis in an immunocompetent patient

Corinne Leemann et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Dec.

Abstract

Bacteremia due to Helicobacter canis has been reported in a patient with X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia. Here we report on the first human case of H. canis bacteremia in an immunocompetent host. Identification of the organism was made by genetic and phylogenetic analyses of the complete 16S rRNA sequence.

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Phylogenetic tree showing the close relationship of the Lausanne strain (GenBank accession number DQ412573) to Helicobacter canis. The tree was inferred from 1,646 bp of the 16S rRNA sequence data. Campylobacter fetus was used as the outgroup. Bootstrap analysis was done with 500 resamplings; the percentage is shown at each node. The scale bar represents a 2% nucleotide difference. GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses.
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