Shewanella putrefaciens infective endocarditis.

Isolation of Shewanella putrefaciens in an elderly man with subacute intestinal obstruction & appendicitis

Shewanella is Gram-negative motile bacillus, non fermentative and facultative anaerobe. Its natural habitat is all forms of water and soil, but has also been isolated from fish, dairy products, oils, and carcasses. Often found with microflora of the marine environment. Bacterial infections with Shewanella spp. are rare. The exposure to the marine environment, sea and diary food are considered a...

Isolation of Shewanella putrefaciens from a rheumatic heart disease patient with infective endocarditis.

Shewanella putrefaciens is a gram-negative bacillus belonging to the family Vibrionaceae (7). It is widely distributed in nature; its natural habitats are water and soil (11). This organism has rarely been isolated from clinical material. We report here a case of bacteremia with S. putrefaciens in a rheumatic heart disease patient with infective endocarditis in which an etiological association ...

Reclassification of Shewanella putrefaciens Owen's genomic group II as Shewanella baltica sp. nov.

The taxonomic relationship between several Shewanella putrefaciens isolates from the Baltic Sea and reference strains of this species is presented in this study. Results from DNA-DNA hybridization using a newly developed non-radioactive detection system and from 16S rRNA gene sequencing demonstrated that S. putrefaciens is a heterogeneous species containing more than a single genomic group. The...

Pseudomonas putrefaciens as a cause of bacteremia in humans.

Pseudomonas putrefaciens has been presented as an opportunistic pathogen in a few isolations from humans. This is the first documented report of a local infection of P. putrefaciens complicated by invasion of the blood stream. The organism was twice isolated from the blood culture and once from the wound exudate of a 73-year-old woman hospitalized for extensive ulcerations on the legs. Parenter...

Nealson respiration in Shewanella putrefaciens MR - 1 . an fnr analog that regulates anaerobic Sequence and genetic characterization of etrA