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Case Reports
. 2019 Apr 23:2019:6219295.
doi: 10.1155/2019/6219295. eCollection 2019.

Fatal Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: A Case Report from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh

Sadia Sharmin  1 , Aflatun Akter Jahan  2 , S M Mostofa Kamal  1 , Protim Sarker  3
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Fatal Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: A Case Report from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh

Sadia Sharmin et al. Case Rep Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram-negative bacterium, found in tropical and subtropical regions. C. violaceum infection rarely occurs, but once occurs, it is associated with significant mortality due to severe systemic infection. Since the first human case from Malaysia in 1927, >150 cases of C. violaceum infection have been reported worldwide. We have described here a fatal case of C. violaceum infection in a tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of C. violaceum infection in Bangladesh.

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Violet-pigmented colonies on blood agar and MacConkey agar plates, typical of C. violaceum.
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