Case report: Fatal Burkholderia pseudomallei infection initially reported as a Bacillus species, Ohio, 2013

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 743-746

  Doker, Thomas J ^a   Quinn, Celia L ^a   Salehi, Ellen D ^b   Sherwood, Joshua J ^c   Benoit, Tina J ^d   Elrod, Mindy Glass ^d   Gee, Jay E ^d   Shadomy, Sean V ^d   Bower, William A ^d   Hoffmaster, Alex R ^d   Walke, Henry T ^d   Blaney, David D ^d   DiOrio, Mary S ^b   Adams, Aaron ^c   Baker, Kristen ^c   Baransi, Karen ^c   Cassity, Timothy R ^c   Curtin, Janet ^c   Daniels, Mary ^c   De Fijter, Sietske ^c   Montavon, Ruth ^c   Mullins, Kathy ^c   Murphy, Amy ^c   St Germain, Eric ^c   Waibel, Marcia ^c   Zikri, Nancy ^c   more..

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

^b OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Pike County General Health District ^*

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; DOXYCYCLINE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CAT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MELIOIDOSIS; MONOCYTOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSTRIL PUSTULE; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PET ANIMAL; PUSTULE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; OHIO;

EID: 84907684100     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0172     Document Type: Article

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