Open AccessCutaneous Infection Caused by a Novel Francisella sp
Author(s) -
Laurel Respicio-Kingry,
Lori Byrd,
Ashley W. Allison,
Meghan Brett,
Christine Scott-Waldron,
Karen Galliher,
P. Gideon Hannah,
Paul S. Mead,
Jeannine M. Petersen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1070-633X
pISSN - 0095-1137
DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01105-13
Subject(s) - biology , 16s ribosomal rna , microbiology and biotechnology , francisella , gene sequence , lesion , bacteria , multilocus sequence typing , ribosomal rna , virology , gene , pathology , genetics , genotype , francisella tularensis , medicine , virulence
A 69-year-old patient presented with a tender, thickly crusted skin lesion of 1 week's duration. A bacterial culture swab taken from the underlying granular tissue yielded a pure isolate of a Gram-negative coccobacillus, presumptively identified as a novel Francisella species via 16S rRNA and multilocus gene sequence analysis.
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