Misidentifications of
Burkholderia pseudomallei
as
Burkholderia cepacia
by Vitek 2 have occurred. Multidimensional scaling ordination of biochemical profiles of 217 Malaysian and Australian
B. pseudomallei
isolates found clustering of misidentified
B. pseudomallei
isolates from Malaysian Borneo. Specificity of
B. pseudomallei
identification in Vitek 2 and potentially other automated identification systems is regionally dependent.
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