TY - JOUR AU - Kanamori, Hajime AU - Aoyagi, Tetsuji AU - Kuroda, Makoto AU - Sekizuka, Tsuyoshi AU - Katsumi, Makoto AU - Ishikawa, Kenichiro AU - Hosaka, Tatsuhiko AU - Baba, Hiroaki AU - Oshima, Kengo AU - Tokuda, Koichi AU - Hasegawa, Masatsugu AU - Kawazoe, Yu AU - Kushimoto, Shigeki AU - Kaku, Mitsuo T1 - Chromobacterium haemolyticum Pneumonia Associated with Near-Drowning and River Water, Japan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 9 SP - 2186 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a severe case of Chromobacterium haemolyticum pneumonia associated with near-drowning and detail the investigation of the pathogen and river water. Our genomic and environmental investigation demonstrated that river water in a temperate region can be a source of C. haemolyticum causing human infections. KW - Chromobacterium haemolyticum KW - environment KW - bacteria KW - pneumonia KW - respiratory infections KW - whole-genome sequencing KW - Japan DO - 10.3201/eid2609.190670 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/19-0670_article ER - End of Reference