A Young Diabetic Patient With Sepsis After Gardening

Nataly Camargo; Giovanna K Casadiego; Dinno A Fernandez; Lina V Millan; Angie K Hernandez; Sandra Vargas; Rafael Rios; Adriana Marin-Osorio; Soraya Salcedo; Deisy L Rodriguez; Ilich V Bayuelo-Charris; Cesar A Arias; Lorena Diaz; Jinnethe Reyes

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa159

A Young Diabetic Patient With Sepsis After Gardening

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 May 15;7(5):ofaa159. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa159. eCollection 2020 May.

Authors

Nataly Camargo^{1

2}, Giovanna K Casadiego¹, Dinno A Fernandez², Lina V Millan³, Angie K Hernandez³, Sandra Vargas³, Rafael Rios³, Adriana Marin-Osorio², Soraya Salcedo², Deisy L Rodriguez², Ilich V Bayuelo-Charris², Cesar A Arias^{3

4

5}, Lorena Diaz^{3

6}, Jinnethe Reyes³

Affiliations

¹ Universidad Libre, Barranquilla, Colombia.
² Organización Clínica General del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
³ Molecular Genetics and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit, International Center for Microbial Genomics, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia.
⁴ Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics and Division of Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Center for Infectious Diseases, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁶ Millennium Initiative for Collaborative Research on Bacterial Resistance (MICROB-R) Santiago, Chile.

Abstract

We report a case of soft tissue infection, sepsis, and bacteremia due to Burkholderia pseudomallei (melioidosis) in a diabetic young patient and the genomic characterization of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolate (COL-5428).

Publication types

Case Reports