Cystic fibrosis patient with Burkholderia pseudomallei infection acquired in Brazil.
Burkholderia pseudomallei is rarely isolated from cystic fibrosis patients outside known areas of endemicity. We report the recovery of B. pseudomallei from the sputum of a cystic fibrosis patient who lives in Brazil. We highlight the importance of careful attention to unusual nonfermentative gram-negative rods in cystic fibrosis patients.
Barth
Afonso Luís
AL
Unidade de Microbiologia e Biologia Molecular, Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil. albarth@hcpa.ufrgs.br
de Abreu E Silva
Fernando Antonio
FA
Hoffmann
Anneliese
A
Vieira
Maria Izolete
MI
Zavascki
Alexandre Prehn
AP
Ferreira
Alex Guerra
AG
da Cunha
Luiz Gonzaga
LG
Albano
Rodolpho Mattos
RM
de Andrade Marques
Elizabeth
E
D000293:Adolescent; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001938:Brazil; D016957:Burkholderia pseudomallei / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S