TY - JOUR
T1 - First case of Francisella bacteraemia in Western Australia
AU - Aravena-Román, Maximiliano
AU - Merritt, A.
AU - Inglis, Tim
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - © 2015 The Authors. 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.
AB - © 2015 The Authors. 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.
U2 - 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.10.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 26649180
SN - 2052-2975
VL - 8
SP - 75
EP - 77
JO - New Microbes and New Infections
JF - New Microbes and New Infections
ER -