PMID: 7334940Jan 1, 1981Paper

A Halophilic vibrio isolated from a case of chronic cholecystitis

Microbiology and Immunology
K KonishiK Sakamoto

Abstract

We found a halophilic vibrio in B bile from a 75-year-old female patient with chronic cholecystitis, and examined its biochemical characteristics. The organisms are gram-negative short rods or comma shaped, with some ring forms. They have a single polar flagellum, but not capsule. The strains can grow in peptone water with 1.0 to 4.0% NaC1, but not with no NaC1 or 6.0% NaC1. The characteristics of the organisms are positive dextrose fermentation, catalase, oxidase, and ornithine decarboxylase, and negative lysine decarboxylase, arginine dihydrolase, and absence of gas from glucose. They are sensitive to 2,4-diamine-6,7-diisopropyl pteridine (0/129). These characteristics indicate that the isolated strain should be a halophilic vibrio. however, no growth on Salmonella-Shigella (SS), SS with added sucrose and bromcresol purple (SS-SB), MacConkey's or thiosulfate citrate bile salts (TCBS) agar plates was demonstrated. Nitrate reduction, Simmons' citrate agar, indole, omicron-nitrophenol-beta-d-galactopyranoside (ONPG), motility and esculin hydrolysis were positive. Urease, gelatinase, Voges-Proskauer, phenylalanine deaminase and malonate reactions were negative. Acid was produced from amygdalin, arabinose, cellobiose, fructose, ga...Continue Reading

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