New tragic details of US child who died from tropical bacteria in room spray - Ars Technica

The healthy boy died a week after falling ill with the tricky-to-diagnose infection.

Enlarge/Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. B. pseudomallei is a Gram-negative aerobic bacteria, and it's the causative agent of melioidosis. 27 with 16 posters partic… [+5817 chars]

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