Leifsonia aquatica

Septicemia Caused by Leifsonia aquatica in a Healthy Patient after Retinal

Septicemia caused by Leifsonia aquatica in a healthy patient after retinal reattachment surgery.

Leifsonia aquatica is an aquatic bacterium that is typically found in environmental water habitats. Infections due to L. aquatica are rare and commonly catheter associated in immunocompromised patients. We report the first case of an acute septicemia caused by L. aquatica in a healthy immunocompetent host after cryopexy in the absence of a catheter.

Leifsonia poae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from nematode galls on Poa annua, and reclassification of ‘Corynebacterium aquaticum ’ Leifson 1962 as Leifsonia aquatica

3 Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 55556, USA The new genus Leifsonia gen. nov. with two new species, Leifsonia poae sp. nov. (type strain VKM Ac-1401T) and Leifsonia aquatica (ex Leifson 1962) nom. rev., comb. nov. (the type species, with VKM Ac-1400T ̄DSM 20146T ̄ JCM 1368T as type strain), is proposed to accommodate bacteria found in Poa annua root gall...

Cultivation of fastidious bacteria by viability staining and micromanipulation in a soil substrate membrane system.

Soil substrate membrane systems allow for microcultivation of fastidious soil bacteria as mixed microbial communities. We isolated established microcolonies from these membranes by using fluorescence viability staining and micromanipulation. This approach facilitated the recovery of diverse, novel isolates, including the recalcitrant bacterium Leifsonia xyli, a plant pathogen that has never bee...

Leifsonia rubra sp. nov. and Leifsonia aurea sp. nov., psychrophiles from a pond in Antarctica.

Two unique psychrophilic strains (CMS 76rT and CMS 81yT) were isolated from a cyanobacterial mat sample from a pond in Wright Valley, McMurdo, Antarctica. Both isolates were assigned to the genus Leifsonia, since they were gram-positive, curved rods, non-motile, catalase-positive, contained DL-2,4-diaminobutyric acid, menaquinone MK-11, phosphatidylglycerol and diphosphatidylglycerol, had a hig...