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Reliability of automated biochemical identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei is regionally dependent

Podin Y 1 , Kaestli M , McMahon N , Hennessy J , Ngian HU , Wong JS Show all authors , Mohana A , Wong SC , William T , Mayo M , Baird RW , Currie BJ

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  • 1 Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
J Clin Microbiol, 2013 Sep;51(9):3076-8.
PMID: 23784129 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01290-13

Abstract

Misidentifications of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Burkholderia cepacia by Vitek 2 have occurred. Multidimensional scaling ordination of biochemical profiles of 217 Malaysian and Australian B. pseudomallei isolates found clustering of misidentified B. pseudomallei isolates from Malaysian Borneo. Specificity of B. pseudomallei identification in Vitek 2 and potentially other automated identification systems is regionally dependent.

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