Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei, China

Authors：Wu, Bin; Tong, Xinxin; He, Haoyan; Yang, Yinmei; Chen, Huling; Yang, Xiao; Xu, Banglao^*

Source：Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021, 27(3): 964-966.

DOI：10.3201/eid2703.191769

• IDENTIFICATION
• MELIOIDOSIS

We report a case of melioidosis in China and offer a comparison of 5 commercial detection systems for Burkholderia pseudomallei. The organism was misidentified by the VITEK 2 Compact, Phoenix, VITEK mass spectrometry, and API 20NE systems but was eventually identified by the Bruker Biotyper system and 16S rRNA sequencing.

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