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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1998, p. 2789-2790, Vol. 36, No. 9
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Actinobacillus equuli Septicemia: an Unusual Zoonotic Infection

Christopher Ashhurst-Smith,1 Robert Norton,1,* Wendy Thoreau,2 and Margaret M. Peel3

Department of Clinical Microbiology, Townsville General Hospital,1 and Cardiology, Mater Hospital, Pimlico,2 Townsville, Queensland, and Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria,3 Australia

Received 1 June 1998/Accepted 11 June 1998

We describe the isolation of Actinobacillus equuli from the blood of a 53-year-old butcher with septicemia. This species of the genus Actinobacillus is primarily associated with animals and animal diseases, especially septicemia in foals. This is the first report of the isolation of A. equuli from a human with septicemia.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Townsville General Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia. Phone: 61 7 4781 9517. Fax: 61 7 4771 5002. E-mail: nortonr{at}health.qld.gov.au.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1998, p. 2789-2790, Vol. 36, No. 9
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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