Late in April 2005, a 5-year- and 5-month-old lactating cow (Holstein) presented with hematuria and urodynia. From the hematuria, a gram-positive, catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccus-shaped organism, which could not be identified by a commercially available rapid identification system, was isolated. The isolate was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as Facklamia sourekii, a recently described gram-positive cocci. The biochemical and culture characteristics of the isolate were strongly consistent with those of the F. sourekii type strain. Since all F. sourekii strains reported so far were isolated from human clinical specimens, this is the first reported case of F. sourekii isolated from a veterinary clinical specimen.
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Reference:
Takamatsu et al. (2006) J. Vet. Med. Sci. 68 : 1225-1227.
