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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1999, p. 3048-3050, Vol. 37, No. 9
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Isolation of Providencia heimbachae from Human Feces

Caroline Mohr O'Hara,1,* Arnie G. Steigerwalt,2 Donna Green,3 Michael McDowell,3 Bertha C. Hill,1 Don J. Brenner,2 and J. Michael Miller1

Hospital Infections Program1 and Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases,2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and State of Washington Department of Public Health, Seattle, Washington3

Received 1 March 1999/Returned for modification 25 April 1999/Accepted 9 June 1999

Providencia heimbachae was first described in 1986. It has been isolated from penguin feces and an aborted bovine fetus. To date, there has been no reported isolation of this organism from human specimens. We now report the isolation of P. heimbachae from the stool of a 23-year-old woman with idiopathic diarrhea. The identity of the human strain was determined biochemically and by DNA relatedness to the type strain of P. heimbachae.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centers for Disease Control, Mailstop C16, Atlanta, GA 30333. Phone: (404) 639-2316. Fax: (404) 639-3241. E-mail: cmo1{at}cdc.gov.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1999, p. 3048-3050, Vol. 37, No. 9
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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