Volume 21, Number 9—September 2015
Letter
Corynebacterium bovis Eye Infections, Washington, USA, 2013
Siu-Kei Chow, Uyen Bui, and Jill E. Clarridge
Table
Characteristics and test results for 4 isolates of Corynebacterium bovis from patients with eye infections, Washington, USA, 2013*
| Characteristic | Reference strains |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. bovis type strain ATCC 7751 | Animal isolates,† n = 115 | Human isolates,† n = 6 | ||||||
| Isolates from this study |
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| F7181 | F7545 | F7275 | F7551 | |||||
| Patient no. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Age, y/sex |
49/M |
25/M |
33/M |
90/M |
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| Date isolated | 2013 Feb 4 | 2013 Jul 2 | 2013 Feb 27 | 2013 Jul 12 | ||||
| Location where specimen was collected | VAPSHCS urgent care | VAPSHCS urgent care | VAPSHCS ED | Bellevue clinic | ||||
| API Coryne test code |
2001004 |
0001004 |
0001105 |
0001004 |
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| Test results | ||||||||
| Production of | ||||||||
| Catalase | + | + | + | + | + | 100 | 100 | |
| Urease | + | + | + | + | – | 44–68 | 17 | |
| Pyrazinamidase | + | – | – | – | + | ND | ND | |
| Acid production from | ||||||||
| Glucose | – | – | + | – | + | 56–98 | 50 | |
| Galactose | – | – | – | – | + | 11–31 | 33 | |
| Mannose | – | – | – | – | + | 5–33 | 33 | |
| Lactose | – | – | – | – | + | 11–26 | 17 | |
| Sucrose |
– |
– |
+ |
– |
ND |
ND |
ND |
|
| GenBank accession no. |
KJ769199 |
KJ769200 |
KJ769201 |
KJ769202 |
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| 16S rRNA gene sequence identity to type strain ATCC 7751, % | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||||
| Length of 16S rRNA gene sequence, nt | 465 | 424 | 465 | 436 | ||||
*Phenotypic characteristics of C. bovis isolates from this study (2) were obtained by using API Coryne system v3.0 and Vitek2 (bioMérieux, Marcy
l’Etoile, France). +, positive; –, negative; ED, emergency department; ND, not determined; VAPSHCS, Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health
Care System.
†% strains positive.
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