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KMID : 0384119870070020283
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Korean Journal of Clinical Pathology
1987 Volume.7 No. 2 p.283 ~ p.287
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Plesiomonas shigelloides Isolation from Two diarrhea Patients
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Abstract
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Plesiomonas shigelloides is a species of facultatively anaerobic gram-negative bacilli belonging to the family Vibrionaceae. The organism is a recently recognized possible enteric pathogen mostly isolated during summer months. We isolated two strains of the organism from diarrhea patients, one in October, 1982 from a 70-year-old woman with no predisposing factor and the other in June, 1987 from a 48-year-old woman with subtotal gastrectomy due to adenocarcinoma of stomach. Growths of the isolates were detected, on thiosulfate citrate bile sucrose (TCBS) agar, but not on other enteric agars, possibly because of missing. At first the isolates were mistaken for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, because it produced green colonies and was oxidase positive. With tests of halophilism, halotolerance and biochemical characteristics, the isolates were identified as P. shigelloides. The isolates were susceptible to various commonly used antimicrobial agents with the exception of ampicillin.
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