2005
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822005000600011
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Cromobacteriose em Ilhéus, Bahia: investigação epidemiológica clínica e laboratorial

Abstract: RESUMOEm abril/2004, um grupo de pessoas realizou passeio a um sítio em cidade no baixo sul da Bahia e em seguida três adolescentes de uma mesma família apresentaram septicemia grave com óbito de dois destes. Objetivando identificar o evento, o Serviço de Vigilância procedeu à investigação epidemiológica, clínica, laboratorial e ambiental, identificando a Chromobacterium violaceum em material biológico de um dos pacientes que evoluíram para óbito e na água e solo do local do passeio. Esta é o primeira descriçã… Show more

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“…The Chromobacterium violaceum is a bacillus or coco-bacillus-shaped bacterium which is Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, and usually lives in water or soil in tropical and subtropical regions [1][2][3][4][5] The most striking feature of this type of bacteria is the production of a pigment called violacein, colouring the colonies violet. However, 9% of the isolated strains do not have pigments [1].…”
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“…The Chromobacterium violaceum is a bacillus or coco-bacillus-shaped bacterium which is Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, and usually lives in water or soil in tropical and subtropical regions [1][2][3][4][5] The most striking feature of this type of bacteria is the production of a pigment called violacein, colouring the colonies violet. However, 9% of the isolated strains do not have pigments [1].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The first description of Chromobacterium violaceum occurred in the Philippines in 1905 [3,[6][7][8], and the first report of human infection occurred in 1927 in Malaysia [1,3,7] and the Southeast Asian region has the highest number of cases reported [2,3]. In Brazil the first case was reported in 1984 and occurred in the Rio Negro region, in the Amazon [3].…”
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