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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2003, p. 2242-2246, Vol. 41, No. 5
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2242-2246.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Bacteremia Due to a Novel Microbacterium Species in a Patient with Leukemia and Description of Microbacterium paraoxydans sp. nov.

Kim Laffineur,1 Véronique Avesani,1 Guy Cornu,2 Jacqueline Charlier,1 Michèle Janssens,1 Georges Wauters,1* and Michel Delmée1

Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Louvain,1 Pediatrics, University Hospital St-Luc, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium2

Received 21 October 2002/ Returned for modification 10 December 2002/ Accepted 27 January 2003

A yellow-pigmented coryneform rod was isolated from the blood of a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who was perfused with a central venous catheter. The culture bottles were positive twice, at a 2-month interval. The isolate was identified as a Microbacterium sp. and studied along with five other similar strains. Phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, and genetic characteristics indicated that they are closely related to Microbacterium oxydans but that they belong to a distinct species, for which the name Microbacterium paraoxydans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of M. paraoxydans is CF36T = DSM 15019T. The G+C content of its DNA is 69.9 mol%.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Louvain, Microbiology Unit, UCL/5490, Av. Hippocrate 54, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. Phone: 32 2 7645490. Fax: 32 2 7649440. E-mail: wauters{at}mblg.ucl.ac.be.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2003, p. 2242-2246, Vol. 41, No. 5
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2242-2246.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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