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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2000, p. 3870-3871, Vol. 38, No. 10
Department of Chemistry, Microbiology and
Immunology1 and Department of
Pulmonology,2 Ghent University Hospital,
Ghent, Belgium
Received 15 May 2000/Returned for modification 21 July
2000/Accepted 9 August 2000
Moraxella canis was isolated in large numbers from an
ulcerated supraclavicular lymph node of a terminal patient, who died a
few days later. Although the patient presented with septic symptoms and
with a heavy growth of gram-negative diplococci in the lymph node,
blood cultures remained negative. M. canis is an
upper-airway commensal from dogs and cats and is considered
nonpathogenic for humans, although this is the third reported human
isolate of this species.
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Isolation of Moraxella canis from an
Ulcerated Metastatic Lymph Node
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of
Bacteriology & Virology, Blok A, Ghent University Hospital, De
Pintelaan 185, B9000 Ghent, Belgium. Phone: 32 9 240 36 92. Fax: 32 9 240 36 59. E-mail: Mario.Vaneechoutte{at}rug.ac.be.
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