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Cutaneous Infection Caused by a Novel Francisella sp. |
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| Authors: | Laurel B. Respicio-Kingry Lori Byrd Ashley Allison Meghan Brett Christine Scott-Waldron Karen Galliher Paul Hannah Paul Mead Jeannine M. Petersen |
| Affiliation: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Fort Collins, Colorado, USAa;The Dermatology Clinic, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USAb;Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USAc;Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, Louisiana, USAd;Orange County Public Health Laboratory, Santa Ana, California, USAe |
| Abstract: | 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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