Chromobacterium violaceum: a fatal case in the northeast of the Brazil

• Egile Nagusiak: Maria José de Britto Costa Fernandes (Egilea), Kleber Giovanni Luz (Egilea), Leonardo de Albuquerque Dantas (Egilea), Maria Celeste Nunes de Melo (Egilea), Dulce Almeida (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Chromobacterium violaceum is a rare pathogen that can potentially cause fatal infections in humans. An 8-year-old child from Natal, northeast of Brazil, presented history of fever, sore throat, and abdominal pain, during 5 days before admission, and died 4 hours after hospitalization. Chromobacteriu...