Isolation of Carnobacterium piscicola from human pus--case report.

Carnobacterium piscicola was first described in 1984. These bacteria are often isolated from fish afflicted with bacterial infections. To date, there has been no reported isolation of this bacterium from human specimens. We report here the isolation of C. piscicola from the pus following traumatic amputation of the right hand in the wrist of a 35-year-old man. The traumatic amputation occurred with an industrial water sawmill. The identity of the human strain was determined biochemically, by 16S rDNA sequence similarity and by fatty-acid methyl-ester profile from bacterial cell.