Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system

Publikation

Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 01.11.2009

Weissert Christoph, Dollenmaier Günter, Rafeiner Philippe, Riehm Julia, Schultze Detlev

Bereiche

Infektiologie | Infektionsprävention | Reisemedizin

PubMed

19891868

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.