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Flavimonas oryzihabitans (CDC Group Ve-2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Humayun J. Chaudhry ,
Paul E. Schoch  and
Burke A. Cunha
Humayun J. Chaudhry
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division and the Microbiology Laboratory, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and the School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
Paul E. Schoch
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division and the Microbiology Laboratory, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and the School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
Burke A. Cunha*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division and the Microbiology Laboratory, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and the School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
*
Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501
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Flavimonas oryzihabitansis an uncommon organism with distinctive microbiological and biochemical features that is infrequently isolated from humans. The presence of foreign material, including indwelling intravascular catheters and artificial grafts, or various surgical procedures appear to predispose patients with underlying disease to bacteremic infection with Flavimonas. A gram-negative bacillus,F oryzihabitans is sensitive to most antibiotics except first- andsecond-generation cephalosporins.F oryzihabitans isolated from blood should be considered pathogenic in patients with indwelling catheters or prosthetic materials.

Previously designatedPseudomonasoryzihabitans and also known as Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Group Ve-2, F oryzihabitans is an unusual gram-negative, nonfermenting, oxidase-negative bacillus that is uncommonly associated with serious illness in humans.’ First described by Dresel and Stickl in 1928 and initially assigned the nameBacterium typhiflavum because of its similarity to the typhoid bacillus, the organism has been isolated from a variety of human sources, including blood, wounds, and abscesses, and (in mixed cultures) from sputum, urine, and cervical cultures.

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Topics in Clinical Microbiology
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 8 , August 1992 , pp. 485 - 488
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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