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Burkholderia pseudomallei Misidentified by Automated System

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 eventua...

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Autores principales: Weissert, Christoph, Dollenmaier, Günter, Rafeiner, Philippe, Riehm, Julia, Schultze, Detlev
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19891868
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1511.081719