Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2005)

Bordetella petrii Clinical Isolate

  • Norman K. Fry,
  • John Duncan,
  • Henry Malnick,
  • Marina Warner,
  • Andrew J. Smith,
  • Margaret S. Jackson,
  • Ashraf Ayoub

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1107.050046
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 7
pp. 1131 – 1133

Abstract

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We describe the first clinical isolate of Bordetella petrii from a patient with mandibular osteomyelitis. The only previously documented isolation of B. petrii occurred after the initial culture of a single strain from an environmental source.

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