[Chromobacteriosis in Ilhéus, Bahia: epidemiologic, clinical and laboratorial investigation].
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.
Dias
Juarez P
JP
Secretaria de Saúde do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, BA. jucadias09@uol.com.br
Silvany
Célia
C
Saraiva
Maria M
MM
Ruf
Hilda R
HR
Guzmán
Julio D
JD
Carmo
Eduardo H
EH
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