Burkholderia pseudomallei Misidentified by Automated System
oleh: Christoph Weissert, Günter Dollenmaier, Philippe Rafeiner, Julia M. Riehm, Detlev Schultze
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-11-01 |
Deskripsi
After returning from Thailand, a 35-year-old man from Switzerland was hospitalized with an abscess of the head. Material cultured from the abscess and adjacent bone grew a gram-negative rod, which was misidentified by an automated microbiology system as Burkholderia cepacia. The organism was eventually identified by molecular methods as B. pseudomallei.