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

Septicemia Caused by Leifsonia aquatica in a Healthy Patient after Retinal

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...

A Case of Coats’ Disease with Spontaneous Retinal Reattachment after Total Detachment

PURPOSE To report a case of Coats' disease in which spontaneous reattachment occurred after total retinal detachment. PATIENT AND METHODS A young boy (patient age: 4 years and 11 months) presented with leukocoria in the left eye. Slit-lamp examination revealed total retinal detachment with abnormal retinal blood vessels and subretinal exudation just behind the lens. Computed tomography imagin...

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...

Draft Genome Sequence of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli Strain gdw1

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli strain gdw1, isolated from the stem of Badila sugarcane located at the Guangdong Key Laboratory for Crops Genetic Improvement (Guanzhou, China), that causes ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane. The de novo genome of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli was assembled with 48 scaffolds and a G+C content of 67.68%, and contained 2.6 Mb...