| [uncommon site of bergeyella zoohelcum. apropos of a case]. | bergeyella zoohelcum is a gram negative bacillus which can be found in several pathological localizations in man: leg abscesses, septicemia, meningitis. we observed a case of community-acquired pneumonia caused by bergeyella zoohelcum. on history taking it was found that the patient was exposed to a dog which may have been the carrier of the gram negative bacilli. the clinical course was long, one year, with persistent excavation. | 1996 | 9033932 |
| phylogenetic position of riemerella anatipestifer based on 16s rrna gene sequences. | riemerella anatipestifer, the causative agent of septicemia anserum exsudativa (also called new duckling disease), belongs to the family flavobacteriaceae of gram-negative bacteria. we determined the dna sequences of the rrs genes encoding the 16s rrnas of four r. anatipestifer strains by directly sequencing pcr-amplified rrs genes. a sequence similarity analysis confirmed the phylogenetic position of r. anatipestifer in the family flavobacteriaceae in rrna superfamily v and allowed fine mapping ... | 1997 | 9103649 |
| detection of acid production from carbohydrates by riemerella anatipestifer and related organisms using the buffered single substrate test. | one hundred and twenty-one riemerella anatipestifer field strains from wild birds, domesticated poultry and pigs were examined for their ability to produce acid from carbohydrates by using conventional biochemical and buffered single substrate (bss) test methods. the type strains of the species r. anatipestifer and taxometrically related genera chryseobacterium and bergeyella were included in the study. in contrast to 10 indole-positive r. anatipestifer variant strains, only a few of the 111 typ ... | 1998 | 9646458 |
| the incidence of weeksella- and bergeyella-like bacteria in the food environment. | eighty-five catalase- and oxidase-positive gram-negative rods and cocci susceptible to penicillin g were isolated from a variety of food sources. the phenotypic relationships of these isolates with reference cultures of bergeyella-like, chryseobacterium, empedobacter, myroides, moraxella, sphingobacterium and weeksella-like strains were examined by numerical taxonomy. seventy-three isolates were recovered in five groups; 80% of the isolates clustered in groups 1, 2 and 3 and produced indole, bea ... | 1998 | 9721639 |
| comparative in vitro activities of abt-773 against aerobic and anaerobic pathogens isolated from skin and soft-tissue animal and human bite wound infections. | we studied the comparative in vitro activities of abt-773, a new ketolide, against 268 aerobic and 148 anaerobic recent isolates from clinical bites using an agar dilution method and inocula of 10(4) cfu/spot for aerobes and 10(5) cfu for anaerobes. the following are the mic ranges and mics at which 90% of isolates are inhibited (mic(90)s) of abt-773 for various isolates, respectively: pasteurella multocida and pasteurella septica, 0.125 to 2 and 1 microg/ml; other pasteurella species, 0.125 to ... | 2000 | 10952607 |
| comparative in vitro activities of gar-936 against aerobic and anaerobic animal and human bite wound pathogens. | gar-936 is a new semisynthetic glycylcycline with a broad antibacterial spectrum, including tetracycline-resistant strains. the in vitro activities of gar-936, minocycline, doxycycline, tetracycline, moxifloxacin, penicillin g, and erythromycin were determined by agar dilution methods against 268 aerobic and 148 anaerobic strains of bacteria (including pasteurella, eikenella, moraxella, bergeyella, neisseria, ef-4, bacteroides, prevotella, porphyromonas, fusobacterium, staphylococcus, streptococ ... | 2000 | 10991855 |
| polymicrobial tenosynovitis with pasteurella multocida and other gram negative bacilli after a siberian tiger bite. | mammalian bites present a considerable clinical problem because they are often associated with bacterial infections. pasteurella multocida is a microorganism that commonly infects both canine and small feline bites. zoonotic infections developing after large feline bites have been recognised, although their reports are limited. we describe a 35 year old man who was bitten by a siberian tiger and who developed infectious tenosynovitis secondary to p multocida, bergeyella (weeksella) zoohelcum, an ... | 2000 | 11127273 |
| polyamine distribution profiles in the eighteen genera phylogenetically located within the flavobacterium-flexibacter-cytophaga complex. | cellular polyamines of eighteen genera belonging to the flavobacterium-flexibacter-cytophaga complex were analysed by ion exchange liquid chromatography. homospermidine was the major polyamine in the genera bergeyella, riemerella, ornithobacterium, weeksella, capnocytophaga, polaribacter and psychroflexus belonging to the family flavobacteriaceae. in the family spirosomaceae, runella, spirosoma and flectobacillus species contained spermidine whereas cyclobacterium species contained homospermidin ... | 2001 | 11491527 |
| bergeyella zoohelcum bacteremia after a dog bite. | | 2001 | 11588704 |
| comparative in vitro activity of ertapenem and 11 other antimicrobial agents against aerobic and anaerobic pathogens isolated from skin and soft tissue animal and human bite wound infections. | we studied the comparative in vitro activity of ertapenem, a new carbapenem, against 240 aerobic and 180 anaerobic recent clinical bite isolates using an agar dilution method and an inoculum of 10(4) cfu/spot for aerobes and 10(5) cfu/spot for anaerobes. ertapenem inhibited 410/420 (98%) of the isolates tested at < or = 4 mg/l with only 4/5 campylobacter gracilis and 1/3 campylobacter rectus strains requiring . or = 16 mg/l for inhibition. ertapenem was only moderately active (mic 8 mg/l) agains ... | 2001 | 11679553 |
| in vitro activities of the des-fluoro(6) quinolone bms-284756 against aerobic and anaerobic pathogens isolated from skin and soft tissue animal and human bite wound infections. | bms-284756, a new des-fluoro(6) quinolone, was very active against 240 aerobic and 180 anaerobic isolates from bite victims. it inhibited 403 of 420 (96%) isolates, including those of moraxella spp., cdc group ef-4, and eikenella corrodens at < or = 2 microg/ml and those of all pasteurella spp. and bergeyella zoohelcum at < or = 0.015 microg/ml. fusobacterium russii and 6 of 11 fusobacterium nucleatum isolates of animal bite origin were resistant, but isolates of human bite origin were susceptib ... | 2002 | 11850275 |
| bergeyella (weeksella) zoohelcum associated with respiratory disease in a cat. | | 2002 | 12403523 |
| bergeyella zoohelcum septicaemia of a patient suffering from severe skin infection. | | 2003 | 12636038 |
| usefulness of the microseq 500 16s ribosomal dna-based bacterial identification system for identification of clinically significant bacterial isolates with ambiguous biochemical profiles. | due to the inadequate automation in the amplification and sequencing procedures, the use of 16s rrna gene sequence-based methods in clinical microbiology laboratories is largely limited to identification of strains that are difficult to identify by phenotypic methods. in this study, using conventional full-sequence 16s rrna gene sequencing as the "gold standard," we evaluated the usefulness of the microseq 500 16s ribosomal dna (rdna)-based bacterial identification system, which involves amplifi ... | 2003 | 12734240 |
| isolation of a fastidious bergeyella species associated with cellulitis after a cat bite and a phylogenetic comparison with bergeyella zoohelcum strains. | bergeyella zoohelcum is an uncommon zoonotic pathogen typically associated with cat or dog bites. previously, only five cases of b. zoohelcum infection have been reported. we report the isolation and characterization of a fastidious bergeyella species from acute cellulitis in the upper extremity of a 60-year-old woman. the organism was too fastidious for identification and susceptibility testing with traditional culture methods. the isolate was characterized further by pcr amplification and sequ ... | 2004 | 14715767 |
| proposal to transfer 'aegyptianella ranarum', an intracellular bacterium of frog red blood cells, to the family flavobacteriaceae as 'candidatus hemobacterium ranarum' comb. nov. | 'aegyptianella ranarum' (order rickettsiales), an ultrastructurally defined small, gram-negative rod, is known to replicate in the red blood cells of frogs. heretofore, this bacterium has not been characterized genetically. we cloned and sequenced the 16s rrna (1310 bp) and gyrb (718 bp) genes of 'a. ranarum' from a canadian frog blood specimen. in situ hybridization (with an 'a. ranarum' 16s rrna gene polymerase chain reaction product as probe) and electron microscopy confirmed that 'a. ranarum ... | 2004 | 15142244 |
| kaistella koreensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the chryseobacterium-bergeyella-riemerella branch. | gram-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, yellow-pigmented bacteria isolated from a freshwater stream in korea were investigated to determine their taxonomic position. complete 16s rrna gene sequence analysis indicated that the organisms should be placed in the chryseobacterium-bergeyella-riemerella branch in the family flavobacteriaceae. phylogenetically, the strains were most closely related to chryseobacterium balustinum atcc 33487(t) and chryseobacterium scophthalmum lmg 13028(t) (94.3 a ... | 2004 | 15545478 |
| sejongia antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov. and sejongia jeonii sp. nov., isolated from the antarctic. | two yellow-pigmented, gram-negative and aerobic bacterial strains, designated at1013t and at1047t, were isolated from terrestrial samples of the antarctic. on the basis of 16s rrna gene sequence analyses, the two antarctic strains shared 97.7 % sequence similarity and showed moderate relationships to the genera chryseobacterium (92.5-95.3 %), riemerella (92.3-93.5 %), bergeyella (92.5-92.6 %) and kaistella (92.5-93.3 %). in phylogenetic analyses, the two isolates formed a robust monophyletic cla ... | 2005 | 15653910 |
| transfer of chryseobacterium meningosepticum and chryseobacterium miricola to elizabethkingia gen. nov. as elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov. | the taxonomic positions of six strains (including the type strain) of chryseobacterium meningosepticum (king 1959) vandamme et al. 1994 and the type strain of chryseobacterium miricola li et al. 2004 were re-evaluated by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. phylogenetic analysis, based on 16s rrna gene sequencing, showed that the strains represent a separate lineage from the type strains of the chryseobacterium-bergeyella-riemerella branch within the family flavobacteriaceae (90.7-93.9 % simil ... | 2005 | 15879269 |
| ['in vitro' activity of different antimicrobial agents on gram-negative nonfermentative bacilli, excluding pseudomonas aeruginosa and acinetobacter spp]. | gram-negative nonfermentative bacilli (nfb) are widely spread in the environment. besides of difficulties for identification, they often have a marked multiresistance to antimicrobial agents, including those active against pseudomonas aeruginosa. the objective of this study was to evaluate the 'in vitro' activity of different antimicrobial agents on 177 gram-negative nonfermentative bacilli isolates (excluding pseudomonas aeruginosa and acinetobacter spp.) isolated from clinical specimens. minim ... | 2005 | 15991478 |
| [rare bacteria species found in wounds of tsunami patients. predominance of gram-negative rods, increased antibiotic resistance]. | microbiological cultures from 229 patients seeking medical advise in stockholm after the tsunami catastrophe december 2004 were analysed at the clinical microbiology laboratory, karolinska university hospital, stockholm, sweden. gram-negative rods were the most common findings from wound cultures. common human pathogens as escherichia coli, proteus species, klebsiella spp, and pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated. however, more rare species of gram-negative rods were also isolated, e.g. myroides ... | 2005 | 16416946 |
| a case of bergeyella zoohelcum bacteremia after ingestion of a dish prepared with goat blood. | | 2006 | 16477574 |
| transmission of an uncultivated bergeyella strain from the oral cavity to amniotic fluid in a case of preterm birth. | intrauterine infection is a recognized cause of preterm birth. the infectious organisms are believed to originate primarily from the vaginal tract and secondarily from other parts of the body. it is plausible that microbes in the oral cavity can be transmitted to the pregnant uterus. however, direct evidence supporting such a transmission is lacking. in this study, amniotic fluids of 34 pregnant women were examined by pcr using 16s and 23s rrna universally conserved primers. bacterial dna was am ... | 2006 | 16597879 |
| cloacibacterium normanense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium in the family flavobacteriaceae isolated from municipal wastewater. | phenotypic and phylogenetic studies were performed on three isolates of an unknown gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile, yellow-pigmented, rod-shaped organism isolated from raw sewage. 16s rrna gene sequence analysis indicated that these strains were members of the bergeyella-chryseobacterium-riemerella branch of the family flavobacteriaceae. the unknown bacterium was readily distinguished from reference strains by 16s rrna gene sequencing and biochemical tests. the organism contai ... | 2006 | 16738108 |
| gram-negative bacteria from patients seeking medical advice in stockholm after the tsunami catastrophe. | microbiological cultures from 229 patients seeking medical advice in stockholm after the tsunami catastrophe of december 2004 were analysed at the clinical microbiology laboratory, karolinska university hospital, stockholm, sweden. gram-negative bacilli were the most common findings from wound cultures. common human pathogens such as escherichia coli, proteus species, klebsiella spp., and pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated. more rare species of gram-negative bacilli, e.g. myroides odoratus, sp ... | 2006 | 16798691 |
| evaluation of pyrrolidonyl arylamidase for the identification of nonfermenting gram-negative rods. | to evaluate the activity of pyrrolidonyl arylamidase (pyr) for the differentiation and identification of nonfermenting gram negative rods (nfgnr), 293 isolates were tested. a 24 h culture of each test organism was prepared. from this a 108-109 cfu/ml suspension was added to 0.25 ml of sterile physiologic solution. a pyr disk was then added and the test was incubated for 30 minutes at 35-37 degrees c, at environmental atmosphere. reading was done by adding 1 drop of cinnamaldehyde reagent. strain ... | 2007 | 16822636 |
| cellulitis and bacteremia caused by bergeyella zoohelcum. | bergeyella zoohelcum is a rod-shaped, aerobic, gram-negative, non-motile and non-saccharolytic bacterium. it is frequently isolated from the upper respiratory tract of dogs, cats and other mammals. clinically, b. zoohelcum has been known to cause cellulitis, leg abscess, tenosynovitis, septicemia, pneumonia and meningitis, and is associated with animal bites. in addition, food-borne transmission was considered in a recent case report. we report a 73-year-old man with liver cirrhosis who had no h ... | 2007 | 17660147 |
| uncultivated bacteria as etiologic agents of intra-amniotic inflammation leading to preterm birth. | intra-amniotic infection and inflammation are major causes of preterm birth (ptb). however, intra-amniotic inflammation is often detected in the absence of infection. this may partly be due to the culturing methods employed in hospital laboratories, which are unable to detect the uncultivated species. in this study, intra-amniotic microbial infections associated with ptb were examined by both culture and 16s rrna-based culture-independent methods and were corroborated by the presence of intra-am ... | 2009 | 18971361 |