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Case Reports
. 2008 Nov;46(11):3853-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01068-08. Epub 2008 Sep 17.

Fatal wound infection caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Stephen Baker  1 , James I Campbell, Richard Stabler, Hoang V M Nguyen, Diep S To, Dung V Nguyen, Jeremy Farrar
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Fatal wound infection caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Stephen Baker et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Nov.

Abstract

Chromobacterium violaceum is a proteobacterium found in soil and water in tropical regions which rarely causes infection in humans. Here, we report a fatal bacteremia caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in Vietnam. We describe a number of clinical, microbiological, and molecular aspects associated with this bacterial infection.

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