Journal article
Characterization of Slackia exigua Isolated from Human Wound Infections, Including Abscesses of Intestinal Origin
Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.48(4), pp.1070-1075
01/27/2010
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01576-09
PMCID: PMC2849566
PMID: 20107092
Abstract
Eleven clinical strains isolated from infected wound specimens were subjected to polyphasic taxonomic analysis. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene showed that all 11 strains were phylogenetically related to
Slackia exigua
. Additionally, conventional and biochemical tests of 6 of the 11 strains were performed as supplementary methods to obtain phenotypic identification by comparison with the phenotypes of the relevant type strains.
S. exigua
has been considered an oral bacterial species in the family
Coriobacteriaceae
. This organism is fastidious and grows poorly, so it may easily be overlooked. The 16S rRNA gene sequences and the biochemical characteristics of four of the
S. exigua
strains isolated for this study from various infections indicative of an intestinal source were almost identical to those of the validated
S. exigua
type strain from an oral source and two of the
S. exigua
strains from oral sources evaluated in this study. Thus, we show for the first time that
S. exigua
species can be isolated from extraoral infections as well as from oral infections. The profiles of susceptibility to selected antimicrobials of this species were also investigated for the first time.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Characterization of Slackia exigua Isolated from Human Wound Infections, Including Abscesses of Intestinal Origin
- Creators
- Keun-Sung Kim - University of California, Los AngelesMarie-Claire Rowlinson - Research ServiceRobert Bennion - Surgical ServiceChengxu Liu - Research ServiceDavid Talan - University of California, Los AngelesPaula Summanen - Research ServiceSydney M. Finegold - University of California, Los Angeles
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.48(4), pp.1070-1075
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
- DOI
- 10.1128/JCM.01576-09
- PMID
- 20107092
- PMCID
- PMC2849566
- ISSN
- 0095-1137
- eISSN
- 1098-660X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/27/2010
- Academic Unit
- Emergency Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984297143102771
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