| Document ID (ISN) | 37291 |
| CIS number |
82-472 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0028-4793 - New England Journal of Medicine |
| Year |
1981 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Schlech W.F., Turchik J.B., Westlake R.E., Klein G.C., Band J.D., Weaver R.E. |
| Title |
Laboratory-acquired infection with pseudomonas pseudomallei (meliodosis) |
| Bibliographic information |
5 Nov. 1981, Vol.305, No.19, p.1133-1135. 9 ref. |
| Abstract |
A 33 year old male laboratory technician was infected with melioidosis as a result of handling the blood cultures of an infected Vietnam veteran in the course of his work. Isolates from a leg abcess of the laboratory worker and from sputum and blood cultures of the Vietnam veteran were pseudomonas pseudomallei. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
laboratory work; pathogenic bacteria; bacterial diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
Pseudomonas; case study |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
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