title: Characterization of Slackia exigua isolated from human wound infections, including abscesses of intestinal origin.
abstract: Eleven clinical strains isolated from infected wound specimens were subjected to polyphasic taxonomic analysis. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene showed that all 11 strains were phylogenetically related to Slackia exigua. Additionally, conventional and biochemical tests of 6 of the 11 strains were performed as supplementary methods to obtain phenotypic identification by comparison with the phenotypes of the relevant type strains. S. exigua has been considered an oral bacterial species in the family Coriobacteriaceae. This organism is fastidious and grows poorly, so it may easily be overlooked. The 16S rRNA gene sequences and the biochemical characteristics of four of the S. exigua strains isolated for this study from various infections indicative of an intestinal source were almost identical to those of the validated S. exigua type strain from an oral source and two of the S. exigua strains from oral sources evaluated in this study. Thus, we show for the first time that S. exigua species can be isolated from extraoral infections as well as from oral infections. The profiles of susceptibility to selected antimicrobials of this species were also investigated for the first time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Keun-Sung
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Marie-Claire
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Rowlinson
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bennion
authors.forename: Chengxu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Talan
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Summanen
authors.forename: Sydney M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Finegold
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D039903:Actinobacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S