Laboratory-Acquired Infection withPseudomonas pseudomallei(Melioidosis)

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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 ReportA 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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