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Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Burkholderia cepacia by the VITEK 2 system
20 Jul 2012
Abstract excerpt
A previously healthy Chinese male returned from working in the Malaysian jungle with a fever. A blood culture grew Gram-negative bacilli that were initially identified as Burkholderia cepacia by the VITEK 2 system but were subsequently found to be Burkholderia pseudomallei by partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The identification of B. pseudomallei using commercially available automated systems is...
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