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Isolation of Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus from a patient with cellulitis
Dalius J Briedis1, Ali Khamessan, Richard W McLaughlin
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|November 28, 2002
Abstract:
Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus is a gram-negative, slender, spirally curved bacterial pathogen. It has been isolated from human blood, spinal fluid, and abscesses, but cellulitis associated with bacteremia is rare. We report its isolation from a blood culture of a human patient with cellulitis as well as difficulties encountered in determining the identity of the subspecies of C. fetus.