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SUBMITTER: Kim JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3553880 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Ji Hyung JH Go Jin J Cho Chong Rae CR Kim Jae Il JI Lee Myung Soo MS Park Se Chang SC
Journal of clinical microbiology 20121212 2
We report herein the first case of acute acalculous cholecystitis caused by Lactococcus garvieae, which is known as a fish pathogen. A 69-year-old fisherman underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to severe inflammation in the gallbladder. The isolate obtained from the gallbladder was identified as L. garvieae by 16S rRNA and manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase (sodA) gene sequence analysis. ...[more]