Misidentification of Yersinia pestis by automated systems, resulting in delayed diagnoses of human plague infections - Oregon and New Mexico, 2010-2011

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Tourdjman, Mathieu ^a,b   Ibraheem, Mam ^a,c   Brett, Meghan ^a,d   Debess, Emilio ^b   Progulske, Barbara ^b   Ettestad, Paul ^c   McGivern, Teresa ^e   Petersen, Jeannine ^d   Mead, Paul ^d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e Oregon State Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INGUINAL PAIN; LABORATORY TEST; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS LUTEOLA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WEAKNESS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOMATION; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO; OREGON; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84866122745     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis578     Document Type: Article

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