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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2000, p. 931-934, Vol. 38, No. 2
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Bacteremia Caused by a Strain of Desulfovibrio Related to the Provisionally Named Desulfovibrio fairfieldensis

Julien Loubinoux,1 Francine Mory,2 Ines A. C. Pereira,3 and Alain E. Le Faou1,*

UMR UHP-CNRS 7565, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie, Faculté de Médecine de Nancy, 54505 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex,1 and Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Central, CHU de Nancy, 54035 Nancy Cedex,2 France, and Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal3

Received 5 August 1999/Returned for modification 22 September 1999/Accepted 19 November 1999

Eight isolates of Desulfovibrio spp. have been obtained over 5 years from abdominal or brain abscesses or blood. In seven patients these strains were part of a mixed flora. One strain was isolated in pure culture from the blood of a patient with peritonitis of appendicular origin. According to the 16S rRNA gene sequences, this strain was close to Desulfovibrio fairfieldensis. The present report describes the fourth isolate of this recently described species to be isolated in pure culture or as a predominant part of the flora and to be associated with infectious processes. Thus, D. fairfieldensis may possess a higher pathogenic potential than other Desulfovibrio species.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital de Brabois-adultes, CHU de Nancy, Route de Neufchâteau, 54511 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex. Phone: (33) 383153469. Fax: (33) 383153474. E-mail: a.lefaou{at}chu-nancy.fr.


Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2000, p. 931-934, Vol. 38, No. 2
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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