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Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system
Journal Paper/Review - Nov 1, 2009
Weissert Christoph, Dollenmaier Günter, Rafeiner Philippe, Riehm Julia, Schultze Detlev
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Brief description/objective
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.