Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand

BACKGROUND: Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease endemic throughout the tropics. METHODS: A study of reported Acinetobacter spp. bacteraemia was performed at Chiang Rai provincial hospital from 2014 to 2015. Isolates were collected and tested for confirmation. R...

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Autores principales: Greer, Rachel C, Wangrangsimakul, Tri, Amornchai, Premjit, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Laongnualpanich, Achara, Dance, David A B, Limmathurotsakul, Direk
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Short Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30295891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try108
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author Greer, Rachel C
Wangrangsimakul, Tri
Amornchai, Premjit
Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn
Laongnualpanich, Achara
Dance, David A B
Limmathurotsakul, Direk
author_facet Greer, Rachel C
Wangrangsimakul, Tri
Amornchai, Premjit
Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn
Laongnualpanich, Achara
Dance, David A B
Limmathurotsakul, Direk
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description BACKGROUND: Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease endemic throughout the tropics. METHODS: A study of reported Acinetobacter spp. bacteraemia was performed at Chiang Rai provincial hospital from 2014 to 2015. Isolates were collected and tested for confirmation. RESULTS: A total of 419 putative Acinetobacter spp. isolates from 412 patients were re-identified and 5/419 (1.2%) were identified as B. pseudomallei. Four of the five patients with melioidosis died. An estimated 88/419 (21%) isolates were correctly identified as Acinetobacter spp. CONCLUSIONS: Misidentification of Acinetobacter spp. as B. pseudomallei or other bacteria is not uncommon and programmes to address these shortfalls are urgently required.
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spelling pubmed-63141502019-01-07 Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand Greer, Rachel C Wangrangsimakul, Tri Amornchai, Premjit Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn Laongnualpanich, Achara Dance, David A B Limmathurotsakul, Direk Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg Short Communications BACKGROUND: Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease endemic throughout the tropics. METHODS: A study of reported Acinetobacter spp. bacteraemia was performed at Chiang Rai provincial hospital from 2014 to 2015. Isolates were collected and tested for confirmation. RESULTS: A total of 419 putative Acinetobacter spp. isolates from 412 patients were re-identified and 5/419 (1.2%) were identified as B. pseudomallei. Four of the five patients with melioidosis died. An estimated 88/419 (21%) isolates were correctly identified as Acinetobacter spp. CONCLUSIONS: Misidentification of Acinetobacter spp. as B. pseudomallei or other bacteria is not uncommon and programmes to address these shortfalls are urgently required. Oxford University Press 2019-01 2018-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6314150/ /pubmed/30295891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try108 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Laongnualpanich, Achara
Dance, David A B
Limmathurotsakul, Direk
Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
title Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
title_full Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
title_fullStr Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
title_short Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
title_sort misidentification of burkholderia pseudomallei as acinetobacter species in northern thailand
topic Short Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30295891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try108
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