Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1799-1801

  Weissert, Christoph ^a   Dollenmaier, Günter ^a   Rafeiner, Philippe ^b   Riehm, Julia ^c   Schultze, Detlev ^a  

^a Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c Institute for Microbiology of the Armed Force   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; FOLINIC ACID; IMIPENEM; RNA 16S; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN SURGERY; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA INFECTION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; SKULL DEFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SWITZERLAND; THAILAND;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AUTOMATION; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; SWITZERLAND; THAILAND; TRAVEL;

EID: 70350456295     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.081719     Document Type: Article

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