Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

R Phetsouvanh; S Phongmany; P Newton; M Mayxay; A Ramsay; V Wuthiekanun; N J White

doi:10.1086/318713

Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

R Phetsouvanh
, S Phongmany
, P Newton
, M Mayxay
, A Ramsay
, V Wuthiekanun
, N J White

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Abstract

Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lymphadenitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	653-4
Number of pages	2
Journal	Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/318713
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2001

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Aged
Burkholderia pseudomallei/isolation & purification
Female
Humans
Laos/epidemiology
Male
Melioidosis/diagnosis

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