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Isolation of Protomonas extorquens (the 'red phantom') from a patient with AIDS
1Department of Microbiology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, UK.
The Journal of Infection
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report the isolation of a pigmented, slowly growing, environmental organism with pink colonies from the blood of a patient with AIDS. The organism was characterised biochemically and by protein 'fingerprinting' as Protomonas extorquens biovar 3. This is the first report of isolation of this organism from a patient with AIDS.