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Actinobacillus equuli septicemia: an unusual zoonotic infection
C Ashhurst-Smith1, R Norton, W Thoreau
1Department of Clinical Microbiology, Townsville General Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|August 15, 1998
Abstract:
We describe the isolation of Actinobacillus equuli from the blood of a 53-year-old butcher with septicemia. This species of the genus Actinobacillus is primarily associated with animals and animal diseases, especially septicemia in foals. This is the first report of the isolation of A. equuli from a human with septicemia.