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Intracellular bacteria of Acanthamoebae resembling Legionella spp. turned out to be Cytophaga sp
K D Müller1, E N Schmid, R Michel
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität GH-Essen, Germany. karl-dieter.mueller@uni-essen.de
Zentralblatt Fur Bakteriologie : International Journal of Medical Microbiology
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
Acanthamoeba sp. isolated from the drinking water system of a hospital harboured gram-negative bacteria multiplying inside phagosomes and within the cytoplasm of their host cells. According to their morphology demonstrated by electron microscopy they resembled Llaps (Legionella-like amoebal pathogens) but turned out to be Cytophaga sp. as shown by a typical profile of cellular fatty acids obtained by means of gas-liquid chromatography.