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First report of isolation and characterization of Aurantimonas altamirensis from clinical samples
Me-Linh Luong1, Sadjia Békal, Donald C Vinh
1Department of Medical Microbiology, Division of Infectious Disease, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 23, 2008
Abstract:
The genus Aurantimonas, proposed in 2003, encompasses four species from environmental sources, including Aurantimonas altamirensis, isolated from a cave wall in Spain. Here, we report what we believe are the first cases of the recovery of A. altamirensis from human clinical materials.

