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Shinichiro Kobayashi1, Masahiro Hayashi2, Tomonori Yaguchi3
1Department of Infectious Disease, Gifu Prefectural General Medical Center, Gifu, Japan.
Abstract:
We report the first documented case of bacteremia caused by Desulfovibrio legallii. A 55-year-old man with multiple system atrophy was admitted to our hospital for rehabilitation. During hospitalization, he developed a fever and rigors. Blood cultures were obtained, and the anaerobic blood culture yielded spiral-shaped, Gram-negative rods. The isolated strain could not be identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry but was subsequently identified as D. legallii by 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis.
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