| francisella species in ticks and animals, iberian peninsula. | the presence of francisella species in 2134 ticks, 93 lagomorphs and 280 small mammals from the iberian peninsula was studied. overall, 19 ticks and 6 lagomorphs were positive for francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica, suggesting, as described for other regions, that lagomorphs may have an important role in the maintenance of f. tularensis in nature. of the 6 positive lagomorphs, 4 were identified as the european rabbit, oryctogalus cuniculus. additionally, 353 ticks and 3 small mammals were ... | 2016 | 26520052 |
| standardized broth microdilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing of francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica strains from europe and rare francisella species. | tularaemia is a widespread zoonosis in europe caused by francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica. because of a lack of standardized clsi-approved antibiotic susceptibility data from european francisella strains, the antibiotic susceptibilities of a selection of f. tularensis subsp. holarctica isolates originating from germany, austria, france, spain and other european countries were determined. rarely isolated species and subspecies of francisella such as francisella philomiragia, f. tularensis ... | 2012 | 22763567 |
| identification and characterization of episomal forms of integrative genomic islands in the genus francisella. | recently, we identified a putative prophage on a genomic island (gi) within the genome sequence of francisella hispaniensis isolate as0-814 (francisella tularensis subsp. novicida-like 3523) by the analysis of the crispr-cas systems of francisella. various spacer dnas within the crispr region of different f. tularensis subsp. novicida strains were found to be homologous to the putative prophage (schunder et al., 2013, int. j. med. microbiol. 303:51-60). now we identified the gi (fhagi-1) as a mo ... | 2015 | 26358917 |
| first case of francisella bacteraemia in western australia. | francisella species are gram-negative, nonmotile, pleomorphic coccobacilli, facultative intracellular fastidious bacteria. we report the isolation of a francisella-like species from a blood culture collected from a 44-year-old bacteraemic patient in perth, western australia. the organism was identified to species level by 16s rrna sequencing and by fatty acid methyl esters analysis. the strain genotypically resembled francisella hispaniensis, a species previously isolated from human blood in spa ... | 2015 | 26649180 |
| description of francisella hispaniensis sp. nov., isolated from human blood, reclassification of francisella novicida (larson et al. 1955) olsufiev et al. 1959 as francisella tularensis subsp. novicida comb. nov. and emended description of the genus francisella. | strain fhsp1t, isolated from human blood in spain in 2003, was studied for its taxonomic allocation. by 16s rrna and reca gene sequencing, the strain was shown to belong to the genus francisella. in the 16s rrna gene sequence, francisella sp. fhsp1t shared similarity of more than 99% with strains of francisella tularensis subspecies and francisella novicida u112t, 98% with francisella piscicida gm2212t and 98.4% with francisella philomiragia atcc 25015t. in the reca gene sequence, francisella sp ... | 2010 | 19783615 |