Anaerobospirillum Species associated with infection - A. succiniproducens, A. thomasii Reported infections - diarrhoea, bacteraemia Reported susceptibilities and treatments - cefuroxime, tetracycline, chloramphenicol Notes - Anaerobospirillum spp. have been isolated from cat and dog faeces References - Malnick et al. (1983). Anaerobiospirillum species isolated from humans with diarrhoea. Clin. Pathol. 36, 1097-1101. - Goddard et al. (1998). Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens septicaemia: important aspects of diagnosis and management. J. Infect. 37, 68-70. - Lee, J.I., Hampson, D.J. (1994). Genetic characterisation of intestinal spirochaetes and their association with disease. J. med. Microbiol. 40, 365-371. - Tee et al. (1998) Three cases of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bacteremia confirmed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. J. clin. Microbiol. 36, 1209-1213. - Malnick, H. (1997). Anaerobiospirillum thomasii sp. nov., an anaerobic spiral bacterium isolated from the feces of cats and dogs and from diarrheal feces of humans, and emendation of the genus Anaerobiospirillum. Int. J. syst. Bacteriol. 47, 381-384.
