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Bacteremia caused by Janibacter melonis.

Elsayed S, Zhang K

Department of Pathology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. sameer.elsayed@cls.ab.ca

We report a case of bacteremia caused by Janibacter melonis, a recently described aerobic actinomycete originally isolated from a spoiled oriental melon. Our patient's blood culture isolate was identified by partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the first report of the recovery of Janibacter species from humans.

Published 7 July 2005 in J Clin Microbiol, 43(7): 3537-9.
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