Citation
R. Phetsouvanh et al., Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, CLIN INF D, 32(4), 2001, pp. 653-654
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Immunology
Journal title
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ISSN journal
10584838
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Volume
32
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
653 - 654
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4838(20010215)32:4<653:MAPBIT>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months o
f starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientian
e, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously health
y, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lympha
denitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi
who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.