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Fatal Wound Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 11, Pages 3853-3855

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AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01068-08

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  1. Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
  2. MRC, United Kingdom
  3. Home Office, United Kingdom
  4. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E500412/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  5. Medical Research Council [G0300020] Funding Source: researchfish
  6. MRC [G0300020] Funding Source: UKRI

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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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