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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2001, p. 1467-1476, Vol. 39, No. 4
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.4.1467-1476.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Tsukamurella strandjordae sp. nov., a
Proposed New Species Causing Sepsis
Mireille M.
Kattar,1
Brad T.
Cookson,1,2
LaDonna C.
Carlson,1
Susan K.
Stiglich,1
Margot A.
Schwartz,3
Trang T.
Nguyen,1
Riza
Daza,1
Carolyn K.
Wallis,1
Stuart L.
Yarfitz,4 and
Marie B.
Coyle1,2,*
Departments of Laboratory
Medicine,1
Microbiology,2 and
Medicine,3 Division of
Infectious Disease, and Department of Medical Education, Division of
Bioinformatics,4 University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington
Received 12 July 2000/Returned for modification 23 October
2000/Accepted 28 January 2001
We have isolated a gram-positive, weakly acid-alcohol-fast,
irregular rod-shaped bacterium from cultures of blood from a 5-year-old girl with acute myelogenous leukemia. This isolate was compared with 14 other strains including reference strains of Tsukamurella species by a polyphasic approach based on physiological and biochemical properties, whole-cell short-chain fatty acid and mycolic acid analyses, DNA-DNA hybridization, and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene.
This isolate represents a new taxon within the genus
Tsukamurella for which we propose the name
Tsukamurella strandjordae sp. nov. Our study also revealed
that Tsukamurella paurometabola ATCC 25938 represents a
misnamed Tsukamurella inchonensis isolate and confirms that
Tsukamurella wratislaviensis belongs to the genus
Rhodococcus.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Laboratory Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359743, 325 Ninth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104. Phone: (206) 731-3311. Fax: (206) 731-3930. E-mail: mbcoyle{at}u.washington.edu.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2001, p. 1467-1476, Vol. 39, No. 4
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.4.1467-1476.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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