Jee Eun Han , Dennis Kaw Gomez , Ji Hyung Kim, Casiano Choresca Jr., Sang Phil Shin and Se Chang Park

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  One of the Egyptian fruit-bat Rousettus aegyptiacus which had been raised at the private commercial aquarium in Seoul, Korea for indoor exhibition was found dead and submitted to the College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University for postmortem examination. A pure bacterium of Kluyvera ascorbata which is known to cause human diseases was isolated from the blood specimen. The isolation of K. ascorbata from fruit bat is very important, because it is the most infectious agent and a potentially dangerous strain of the genus Kluyvera. Moreover, it can cause serious diseases not only to human but also to animals. Fruit-bats which are distributed in Korean pet shops through black-market, become popular as pets nowadays. This situation enhances chance of zoonosis. This paper describes the first isolation of the Kluyvera ascorbata from the Egyptian fruit-bat. <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />