Bacteremia due to a novel Microbacterium species in a patient with leukemia and description of Microbacterium paraoxydans sp. nov |
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| Authors: | Laffineur Kim Avesani Véronique Cornu Guy Charlier Jacqueline Janssens Michèle Wauters Georges Delmée Michel |
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| Affiliation: | Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. |
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| 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 CF36(T) = DSM 15019(T). The G+C content of its DNA is 69.9 mol%. |
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