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J Med Microbiol 55 (2006), 335-339; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46219-0
© 2006 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Case Report

Interstitial pulmonary inflammation due to Microbacterium sp. after heart transplantation

Giovanni M. Giammanco1, Sarina Pignato2, Patrick A. D. Grimont3, Francine Grimont3, Carmelita Santangelo4, Giuseppe Leonardi5, Angelo Giuffrida5, Vivian Legname5 and Giuseppe Giammanco2

1 Dipartimento di Igiene e Microbiologia ‘G. D'Alessandro’, Università di Palermo, I-90127 Palermo, Italy

2 Dipartimento ‘G. F. Ingrassia’ Igiene e Sanità Pubblica, Università di Catania, I-95100 Catania, Italy

3 Unité Biodiversité Bactéries Pathogènes Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, F-75724 Paris, France

Servizio di Patologia Clinica, Sezione di Batteriologia4 , and Divisione di Cardiochirurgia5 , Azienda Ospedali Vittorio Emanuele, Ferrarotto, Santo Bambino, I-95100 Catania, Italy

Correspondence
Giovanni M. Giammanco
g.m.giammanco{at}unipa.it

Received 30 June 2005
Accepted 26 October 2005

A coryneform bacterium was isolated from the bronchoalveolar aspirate of a patient with interstitial pulmonary inflammation. Commercial systems identified the isolate as Corynebacterium sp. or Aureobacterium sp./Corynebacterium aquaticum, but 16S rRNA gene analysis unequivocally attributed it to the genus Microbacterium. This represents the first documented case of Microbacterium pulmonary infection.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the OVE isolate reported in this paper is AY960683.






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