TY - JOUR
T1 - Laboratory-Acquired Infection with Pseudomonas pseudomallei (Melioidosis)
AU - Schlech, Walter F.
AU - Turchik, James B.
AU - Westlake, Robert E.
AU - Klein, George C.
AU - Band, Jeffrey D.
AU - Weaver, Robert E.
AU - Schlech, Walter F.
PY - 1981/11/5
Y1 - 1981/11/5
N2 - INFECTION with Pseudomonas pseudomallei acquired in the Western hemisphere is exceedingly rare. Careful questioning of patients with acute or chronic melioidosis will usually reveal a recent or remote history of travel to Asia or, infrequently, South America. Recently, a patient with acute melioidosis, who was a laboratory technician and had not traveled to these areas, was reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The circumstances made it likely that this was an example of laboratory-acquired infection. Case Report A previously well 33-year-old man was hospitalized in June 1980 with fever, pleuritic chest pain, a slightly productive cough, and swelling.
AB - INFECTION with Pseudomonas pseudomallei acquired in the Western hemisphere is exceedingly rare. Careful questioning of patients with acute or chronic melioidosis will usually reveal a recent or remote history of travel to Asia or, infrequently, South America. Recently, a patient with acute melioidosis, who was a laboratory technician and had not traveled to these areas, was reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The circumstances made it likely that this was an example of laboratory-acquired infection. Case Report A previously well 33-year-old man was hospitalized in June 1980 with fever, pleuritic chest pain, a slightly productive cough, and swelling.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198111053051907
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198111053051907
M3 - Article
C2 - 7290119
AN - SCOPUS:0019860187
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 305
SP - 1133
EP - 1135
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 19
ER -