Publikation

Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 01.11.2009

Bereiche
PubMed

Zitation
Weissert C, Dollenmaier G, Rafeiner P, Riehm J, Schultze D. Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system. Emerging infectious diseases 2009; 15:1799-801.
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)
Zeitschrift
Emerging infectious diseases 2009; 15
Veröffentlichungsdatum
01.11.2009
eISSN (Online)
1080-6059
Seiten
1799-801
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

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.