Plague — Worldwide/Unknown
[Authors: Runfola JK, House J, Miller K, et al]
On 8 Jul 2014, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) laboratory identified _Yersinia pestis_, the bacterium that causes plague, in a blood specimen collected from a man (patient A) hospitalized with pneumonia. The organism had been previously misidentified as _Pseudomonas luteola_ by an automated system in the hospital laboratory. An investigation led by Tri-County Health Department (TCHD) revealed that patient A’s
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