Metagenomic identification of a novel oomycete cultured from a pyogranulomatous mass on the tail of a domestic cat.

We report here a transiently culturable oomycete pathogen isolated from a pyogranulomatous tail mass in a cat. The organism was morphologically and genetically distinct from and species. Following next-generation sequencing (NGS) and assembly of contigs, initial phylogenetic analysis using fragments of the mitochondrial gene identified this specimen as sp.

Isolation of Aureimonas altamirensis, a Brucella canis-like bacterium, from an edematous canine testicle.

Microbiological and histological analysis of a sample from a swollen testicle of a 2-year-old Border Collie dog revealed a mixed infection of the fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis and the Gram-negative bacterium Aureimonas altamirensis. When subjected to an automated microbial identification system, the latter isolate was provisionally identified as Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus, but the organism shared several biochemical features with Brucella canis and exhibited agglutination, albeit weakly, with anti-B. canis antiserum.