title: Septicemia in an Indian Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) associated with Providencia stuartii.
abstract: Providencia stuartii (P. stuartii) is an opportunistic pathogen and major concern in urinary catheter-related infections in human medicine. Here we report P. stuartii-induced septicemia in an eighteen-year-old, female India-origin Rhesus macaque with multiple traumatic wounds. The animal had neutrophilic leukocytosis, necrosuppurative meningoencephalitis, hypophysitis and bronchopneumonia with vasculitis, thrombosis, and clusters of extracellular Gram-negative bacilli. P. stuartii was isolated from the lesions of the brain and lung and confirmed by PCR and sequencing. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of septicemia associated with P. stuartii in a non-human primate.
authors.affiliation: The Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, LA, USA.
authors.forename: David X
authors.initials: DX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: The Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, LA, USA.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Didier
authors.affiliation: The Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, LA, USA.
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Plauche
authors.affiliation: The Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, LA, USA.
authors.forename: Bapi
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pahar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D008145:Louisiana; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D011532:Providencia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*
keywords: 
  Providencia stuartii
  ; rhesus macaque; septicemia