Burkholderia pseudomallei misidentified by automated system.
After returning from Thailand, a 35-year-old man from Switzerland was hospitalized with an abscess of the head. Material cultured from the abscess and adjacent bone grew a gram-negative rod, which was misidentified by an automated microbiology system as Burkholderia cepacia. The organism was eventually identified by molecular methods as B. pseudomallei.
Weissert
Christoph
C
Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, St. Gallen CH-9001, Switzerland.
Dollenmaier
Günter
G
Rafeiner
Philippe
P
Riehm
Julia
J
Schultze
Detlev
D
D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology; D000328:Adult; D001331:Automation; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D019121:Burkholderia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D016956:Burkholderia cepacia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016957:Burkholderia pseudomallei / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D013557:Switzerland; D013785:Thailand / Q000208:ethnology; D014195:Travel