| outbreak of human pneumonic plague with dog-to-human and possible human-to-human transmission--colorado, june-july 2014. | on july 8, 2014, the colorado department of public health and environment (cdphe) laboratory identified yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, in a blood specimen collected from a man (patient a) hospitalized with pneumonia. the organism had been previously misidentified as pseudomonas luteola by an automated system in the hospital laboratory. an investigation led by tri-county health department (tchd) revealed that patient a's dog had died recently with hemoptysis. three other perso ... | 2015 | 25928467 |
| description of pseudomonas asuensis sp. nov. from biological soil crusts in the colorado plateau, united states of america. | a gram-negative, aerobic, non spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped, yellow pigmented bacterium cp155-2(t) was isolated from a biological soil crusts sample collected in the colorado plateau, usa and subjected to polyphasic taxonomic characterization. strain cp155-2(t) contained summed feature 3 (c(16:1)ω5c/c(16:1)ω7c) and c(18:1)ω7c as major fatty acids and diphosphatidylglycerol (dpg) along with phosphatidylethanolamine (pe) and phosphatidylglycerol (pg) as major polar lipids. based on these c ... | 2015 | 25557476 |