title: [Chromobacteriosis in Ilhéus, Bahia: epidemiologic, clinical and laboratorial investigation].
abstract: In April/2004, a group of people traveled to a farm in a town in the south of Bahia and afterwards, three teenagers from the same family developed symptoms of severe septicemia and two died. The Health Department carried out an epidemiologic, clinical, laboratory and environmental investigation that resulted in the identification of Chromobacterium violaceum, in biological material from one of them, water and soil. This is the first report of the disease in Bahia State.
authors.affiliation: Secretaria de Saúde do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, BA. jucadias09@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Juarez P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Célia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silvany
authors.forename: Maria M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Saraiva
authors.forename: Hilda R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Ruf
authors.forename: Julio D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Guzmán
authors.forename: Eduardo H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Carmo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002861:Chromobacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index