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Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Dispatch

Chromobacterium haemolyticum Pneumonia Associated with Near-Drowning and River Water, Japan

Hajime KanamoriComments to Author , Tetsuji Aoyagi, Makoto Kuroda, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Makoto Katsumi, Kenichiro Ishikawa, Tatsuhiko Hosaka, Hiroaki Baba, Kengo Oshima, Koichi Tokuda, Masatsugu Hasegawa, Yu Kawazoe, Shigeki Kushimoto, and Mitsuo Kaku
Author affiliations: Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan (H. Kanamori, T. Aoyagi, M. Katsumi, K. Ishikawa, T. Hosaka, H. Baba, K. Oshima, K. Tokuda, M. Hasegawa, Y. Kawazoe, S. Kushimoto, M. Kaku); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (M. Kuroda, T. Sekizuka)

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Metagenomic analysis of river water sample collected from the site of near-drowning of a patient with Chromobacterium haemolyticum pneumonia, Japan. A) Relative abundance of superkingdom, class of bacteria, and genus of betaproteobacteria in river water sample. The relative abundance of bacteria is 25.65%; the 10 most observed class and genus are summarized in cumulative bar charts. B) Comparison of relative abundance of bacteria causing pneumonia associated with drowning in genus level in the r

Figure 2. Metagenomic analysis of river water sample collected from the site of near-drowning of a patient with Chromobacterium haemolyticum pneumonia, Japan. A) Relative abundance of superkingdom, class of bacteria, and genus of betaproteobacteria in river water sample. The relative abundance of bacteria is 25.65%; the 10 most observed class and genus are summarized in cumulative bar charts. B) Comparison of relative abundance of bacteria causing pneumonia associated with drowning in genus level in the river water sample. The relative abundance of Chromobacterium, a Betaproteobacteria, is 0.073%.

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