Bacteremia Due to a Novel Microbacterium Species in a Patient with Leukemia and Description of Microbacterium paraoxydans sp. nov
Open Access
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 41 (5) , 2242-2246
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.41.5.2242-2246.2003
Abstract
A yellow-pigmented coryneform rod was isolated from the blood of a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who was perfused with a central venous catheter. The culture bottles were positive twice, at a 2-month interval. The isolate was identified as a Microbacterium sp. and studied along with five other similar strains. Phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, and genetic characteristics indicated that they are closely related to Microbacterium oxydans but that they belong to a distinct species, for which the name Microbacterium paraoxydans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of M. paraoxydans is CF36T = DSM 15019T. The G+C content of its DNA is 69.9 mol%.Keywords
This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
- Catheter-Related Microbacterium Bacteremia Identified by 16S rRNA Gene SequencingJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2002
- Nosocomial Outbreak ofMicrobacteriumSpecies Bacteremia among Cancer PatientsThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2001
- Description of Microbacterium foliorum sp. nov. and Microbacterium phyllosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the phyllosphere of grasses and the surface litter after mulching the sward, and reclassification of Aureobacterium resistens (Funke et al. 1998) as Microbacterium resistens comb. nov..International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2001
- Union of the genera Microbacterium Orla-Jensen and Aureobacterium Collins et al. in a redefined genus MicrobacteriumInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 1998
- Propionic Acid-Producing Strains Previously Designated as Corynebacterium xerosis, C. minutissimum, C. striatum, and CDC Group I2 and Group F2 Coryneforms Belong to the Species Corynebacterium amycolatumInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 1996
- Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1988
- Studies on the spectrophotometric determination of DNA hybridization from renaturation ratesSystematic and Applied Microbiology, 1983
- Thermal stability and renaturation of DNA in dimethyl sulfoxide solutions: Acceleration of the renaturation rateBiopolymers, 1980
- A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequencesJournal of Molecular Evolution, 1980
- The Quantitative Measurement of DNA Hybridization from Renaturation RatesEuropean Journal of Biochemistry, 1970