“…Lawsonella clevelandensis is a Gram-positive, partially acid-fast, non-spore-forming, anaerobic, catalase-positive, pleomorphic bacterium, considered a new species within the genus in the suborder Corynebacterineae [1,2]. To date, there have been only seven reported cases of this organism causing infection, having been detected in abdominal [3,4], spinal [2,5], liver [2] and breast abscesses [2,6]. In most cases, L. clevelandensis was isolated following prolonged enrichment culture under strict anaerobic atmospheric conditions (mean 7.4 days, range 4-13 days of incubation), but molecular techniques were sometimes required to detect the organism.…”