Volume 44, no. 3, p. 1184-1186, 2006. The organism with which the article was concerned was incorrectly identified as Ochrobactrum anthropi; it was actually Ochrobactrum intermedium. We based our identification on the API 20E profile, on 16S RNA gene sequencing analysis, and on the fact that the organism was a gram-negative rod that was highly motile and oxidase positive. Recently, H. C. Scholz, H. Tomaso, S. A. Dahouk, A. Witte, M. Schloter, and P. Kämpfer (FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 257:7-16, 2006) developed a recA- and 16S rRNA gene-based sequencing approach to correctly discriminate O. anthropi from O. intermedium. Reinvestigation of the subject organism of our article by using this approach, by applying additional physiological/biochemical characterization, and by DNA-DNA hybridization analysis confirmed that the organism was O. intermedium. All data, results, and conclusions presented in our article are also valid for O. intermedium.
. 2007 May;45(5):1672. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02260-06
Pelvic Abscess Due to Ochrobactrum anthropi in an Immunocompetent Host: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Sagar A Vaidya
1, Diane M Citron
1, Marjorie B Fine
1, Georgette Murakami
1, Ellie J C Goldstein
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Sagar A Vaidya
1Medical Scientist Training Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, and R. M. Alden Research Laboratory, Infectious Disease Division, Surgery Division, and Microbiology Laboratory, St. John's Hospital Health Center, Santa Monica, California
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Diane M Citron
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Ellie J C Goldstein
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This corrects the article "Pelvic Abscess Due to Ochrobactrum anthropi in an Immunocompetent Host: Case Report and Review of the Literature" in volume 44 on page 1184.