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J Med Microbiol 58 (2009), 267-269; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.004291-0
© 2009 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Case Report

Isolation of Brucella melitensis from an abscess on the left foot of a 3-year-old infant

Jesús Resendiz-Sánchez1, Araceli Contreras-Rodríguez2, Ahidé López-Merino2, Leopoldo Bravo-Guzmán1 and Juan Gabriel Valle-Valdez3

1 Hospital Infantil de México ‘Federico Gómez’, Mexico City, Mexico

2 Departamento de Microbiologia, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico

3 Instituto Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, Mexico City, Mexico

Correspondence
Araceli Contreras-Rodríguez
cora29{at}hotmail.com

Received June 20, 2008
Accepted October 14, 2008

An unusual case of a 3-year-old girl with a brucellar foot abscess is reported. Although direct microscopic examination of samples from the lesion did not reveal micro-organisms of any kind, a 7 day culture of caseous material yielded small colonies of Gram-negative cocobacilli in Löwenstein–Jensen medium. These were biochemically and molecularly identified as Brucella melitensis. The possibility of foot abscess being caused by Brucella should be considered in countries where brucellosis is endemic.

A colour figure of the skin lesion is available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.






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