Leptotrichia amnionii: certain pathogen in pyosalpinx

Sandro Pierdomenico; Andreina Baj; Giuseppe Massari; Alberto Colombo; Sergio Gallazzi

doi:10.4081/mm.2010.2404

Leptotrichia amnionii: certain pathogen in pyosalpinx

https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2010.2404

PDF

Vol. 25 No. 4 (2010)

Submitted: 14 February 2014
Accepted: 14 February 2014

Published: 31 December 2010

Anaerobes, Leptotrichia amnionii, Pyosalpinx, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Abstract Views: 863

PDF: 897

Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

Leptotrichia amnionii has had a recent taxonomic definition (2002) and definitely belongs to fastidious Gram negative anaerobes group thanks to difficulties to culture and preserve. Few PubMed reports of microbiological detections are documented to date and this is the first isolation described in Italy. Frequently only DNA analysis in direct samples succeeds in finding it out. Our study describes a case of Leptotrichia amnionii successfully cultivated from aspirated pus, but only 16S rRNA gene amplification and subsequent sequencing technique could afford to identify.The work remarks the added value of DNA techniques in routine analysis of anaerobes.

Pierdomenico, S., Baj, A., Massari, G., Colombo, A., & Gallazzi, S. (2010). Leptotrichia amnionii: certain pathogen in pyosalpinx. Microbiologia Medica, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2010.2404