A thin, filamentous, non-motile, aerotolerant, anaerobic, gram-negative bacterium was isolated from the blood of a 46-year-old man who was diagnosed as having acute myeloid leukemia. The organism had a positive catalase reaction but was negative in indole and oxidase tests. A commercially available system failed to identify the bacterium, but 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed it to be most closely related (97% similarity) to a recently isolated Leptotrichia sp. The DNA base composition was 29.7% mol G+C, and the organism produced lactate as the sole end-product of glucose fermentation. These data indicate the isolate is a new species of Leptotrichia for which the name Leptotrichia trevisanii sp. nov. is proposed.
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Tee, W., Midolo, P., Janssen, P., Kerr, T., & Dyall-Smith, M. (2001). Bacteremia due to Leptotrichia trevisanii sp. nov. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 20(11), 765–769. https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960100618
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