Isolation of Moraxella canis from an ulcerated metastatic lymph node

Moraxella canis was isolated in large numbers From an ulcerated supraclavic ular lymph node of a terminal patient, who died a few days later.,Although the patient presented with septic symptoms and with a heavy growth of gram- negative diplococci in the lymph node, blood cultures remained negative. M. canis is an upper-airway commensal from dogs and cats and is considered no npathogenic for humans, although this is the third reported human isolate o f this species.