Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei, China

Abstract

We report a case of melioidosis in China and offer a comparison of 5 commercial detection systems for Burkholderia pseudomallei. The organism was misidentified by the VITEK 2 Compact, Phoenix, VITEK mass spectrometry, and API 20NE systems but was eventually identified by the Bruker Biotyper system and 16S rRNA sequencing.

Keywords

• Burkholderia pseudomallei
• misidentification
• biochemical identification systems
• China
• bacteria
• matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry