Isolation of Carnobacterium sp. from a human blood culture.
Carnobacterium species have been isolated from the environment and are not regarded as human pathogens, although they are known to cause disease in fish. Only two reports describing isolation of Carnobacterium species from human pus were found in the literature. We report what we believe to be the first isolation of Carnobacterium sp. from a human blood culture.
Hoenigl
Martin
M
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of InternalMedicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Grisold
Andrea J
AJ
Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and EnvironmentalMedicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Valentin
Thomas
T
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of InternalMedicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Leitner
Eva
E
Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and EnvironmentalMedicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Zarfel
Gernot
G
Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and EnvironmentalMedicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Renner
Heiko
H
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Universityof Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Krause
Robert
R
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of InternalMedicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology*; D056573:Carnobacterium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests