Identification of Facklamia sourekii from a lactating cow

Abstract

A gram-positive, catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccus was isolated from a lactating cow with hematuria and uro-dynia in Japan. The isolate was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as Facklamia sourekii. The biochemical and culture characteristics of the isolate were well consistent with those of F. sourekii type strain. Since all F. sourekii strains reported so far were isolated from human clinical specimens, this is the first reported case of F. sourekii isolated from veterinary clinical specimen.