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At home, the patient had undergone antibiotic therapy without clinical improvement. Vital signs on admission revealed an increased respiratory rate, tachycardia, pyrexia and weight loss. The animal was submitted for collateral examination including thoracic radiology and ultrasound and thoracoscopy that showed bilateral pleural effusion associated with multifocal pulmonary atelectasis.<\/jats:p><jats:p>During the thoracoscopic examination, that confirmed the presence of a seropurulent pleural effusion, a sample of pleural fluid was collected and Gram-negative bacteria were isolated and subjected to matrix-assisted laser desorption\/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) that allowed the identification of<jats:italic>K. variicola<\/jats:italic>. The isolate was sensitive to amikacin, cefazolin, enrofloxacin, marbofloxacin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole;the horse was treated with Oxytetracycline and amikacin. Despite a general health improvement of the subject, the pleural effusion did not resolve after treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper describes, for the first time, the isolation of<jats:italic>K. variicola<\/jats:italic>in a horse with respiratory disease. The misidentification between<jats:italic>K. variicola<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>K. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic>has caused unawareness about significant aspects of this bacterial species. In fact, even though in animals the role of this bacterium is not clear, in humans it has been recognized as an emerging pathogen. The use of new methods for bacterial identification will probably lead to the isolation of a greater number of strains which will have to be studied to acquire knowledge that will be useful to clarify the clinical importance and relevance of<jats:italic>K. variicola<\/jats:italic>also in animals.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12917-021-02776-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,12]],"date-time":"2021-02-12T20:30:21Z","timestamp":1613161821000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["First isolation of Klebsiella variicola from a horse pleural effusion"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Elisabetta","family":"Mondo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Riccardo","family":"Rinnovati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Spadari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1168-4826","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Federica","family":"Giacometti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrea","family":"Serraino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Federica","family":"Savini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Silvia","family":"Piva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,12]]},"reference":[{"issue":"8","key":"2776_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"549","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1751-0813.2000.tb11901.x","volume":"78","author":"DJ Racklyeft","year":"2000","unstructured":"Racklyeft DJ, Love DN. 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