Two fatal cases of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border

Melioidosis is endemic in areas of Southeast Asia, however, there are no published reports from the Thai-Myanmar border. We report the first two documented cases of fatal melioidosis in this region. This is of great public health importance and highlights the need to both increase clinical awareness...

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Autores principales: Chu, Cindy S., Winearls, Stuart, Ling, Clare, Torchinsky, Miriam Beer, Phyo, Aung Phae, Haohankunnathum, Warat, Turner, Paul, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Nosten, François
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24715973
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-4.v2
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author Chu, Cindy S.
Winearls, Stuart
Ling, Clare
Torchinsky, Miriam Beer
Phyo, Aung Phae
Haohankunnathum, Warat
Turner, Paul
Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn
Nosten, François
author_facet Chu, Cindy S.
Winearls, Stuart
Ling, Clare
Torchinsky, Miriam Beer
Phyo, Aung Phae
Haohankunnathum, Warat
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description Melioidosis is endemic in areas of Southeast Asia, however, there are no published reports from the Thai-Myanmar border. We report the first two documented cases of fatal melioidosis in this region. This is of great public health importance and highlights the need to both increase clinical awareness of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border, and to assess the true burden of disease in the area through improved case detection and Burkholderia pseudomallei prevalence studies.
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spelling pubmed-39761022014-04-07 Two fatal cases of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border Chu, Cindy S. Winearls, Stuart Ling, Clare Torchinsky, Miriam Beer Phyo, Aung Phae Haohankunnathum, Warat Turner, Paul Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn Nosten, François F1000Res Case Report Melioidosis is endemic in areas of Southeast Asia, however, there are no published reports from the Thai-Myanmar border. We report the first two documented cases of fatal melioidosis in this region. This is of great public health importance and highlights the need to both increase clinical awareness of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border, and to assess the true burden of disease in the area through improved case detection and Burkholderia pseudomallei prevalence studies. F1000Research 2014-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3976102/ /pubmed/24715973 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-4.v2 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Chu CS et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn
Nosten, François
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