Tularemia, also called Ohara’s disease, is an acute bacterial infectious disease caused by a pleomorphic, non-mobile, non-capsulated, small Gram negative coccobacillus and zoonotic bacterium, Francisella tularensis. This zoonotic bacteria has reportedly infected a wide range of wild animals (rabbits, hares, squirrels, muskrats, moles, skunks, beavers, deer), some domestic animals (sheep, cattle...

Senegalemassilia anaerobia strain JC110(T) sp.nov. is the type strain of Senegalemassilia anaerobia gen. nov., sp. nov., the type species of a new genus within the Coriobacteriaceae family, Senegalemassilia gen. nov. This strain, whose genome is described here, was isolated from the fecal flora of a healthy Senegalese patient. S. anaerobia is a Gram-positive anaerobic coccobacillus. Here we des...

Francisella philomiragia is a Gram-negative coccobacillus, which very rare human opportunistic pathogen causing pneumonia and systemic infection. It difficult to identify this bacterium through conventional Gram-staining biochemical methods due an amorphous Gram stain appearance after 24 h culture its relatively fastidious slow growth giving weak and/or delayed reactions in tests. often misiden...

Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are commonly caused by pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci; however, other microbial etiologies and specific risk factors are increasingly recognized. Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative coccobacillus that is part of the normal oral flora in many animals, and is particularly common in dogs and cats. PJIs caused by ...

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a gram-negative coccobacillus which is a very rare cause of bacterial endocarditis. Preexisting cardiac lesions are a main contributing factor, and antibiotic prophylaxis has long been felt necessary before dental or other manipulation to prevent endocarditis. Penicillin in combination with an aminoglycoside has been the most often used treatment regimen....

A close collaboration between the physicians-scientists of the Division of Cardiology, The Ohio State University and the basic scientists of the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School was essential to define the multiple phenotypic expressions and the genetic abnormalities in the heritable conduction and myocardial disease in a family from central Ohio (Family OSU). The Family OSU prese...

There is an error in the first paragraph of this article. The third sentence of this paragraph should be: Indeed, this serovar showed an unusual increase in Europe during the third quarter of 2006 with several of them acquired during travels to Northeast Africa and Turkey. The authors would like to apologize for this error. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2007) 60, 1183 doi:10.1093/jac/d...

INTRODUCTION Moraxella osloensis is a gram-negative coccobacillus, that is saprophytic on skin and mucosa, and rarely causing human infections. Reported cases of human infections usually occur in immunocompromised patients. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report the second case of M. osloensis-caused-osteomyelitis in literature, occurring in a young healthy man. The organism was identified by sequenc...