Emergence of melioidosis in the Indian Ocean region: Two new cases and a literature review

Melioidosis is a disease caused by bacteria called B. pseudomallei. Infections can develop after contact with standing water. This disease can reach all the organs and especially the lungs. It is associated with a high mortality rate (up to 50%). Melioidosis is endemic in northern Australia and in S...

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Autores principales: Allou, Nicolas, Martinet, Olivier, Allyn, Jérôme, Bouchet, Bruno, Jaffar-Bandjee, Marie-Christine, Galas, Thomas, Traversier, Nicolas, Belmonte, Olivier
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29240770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006018
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author Allou, Nicolas
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Allyn, Jérôme
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description Melioidosis is a disease caused by bacteria called B. pseudomallei. Infections can develop after contact with standing water. This disease can reach all the organs and especially the lungs. It is associated with a high mortality rate (up to 50%). Melioidosis is endemic in northern Australia and in Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, B. pseudomallei may be endemic in the Indian Ocean region and in Madagascar in particular, so clinicians and microbiologists should consider acute melioidosis as a differential diagnosis in the Indian Ocean region, in particular from Madagascar.
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spelling pubmed-57301182017-12-22 Emergence of melioidosis in the Indian Ocean region: Two new cases and a literature review Allou, Nicolas Martinet, Olivier Allyn, Jérôme Bouchet, Bruno Jaffar-Bandjee, Marie-Christine Galas, Thomas Traversier, Nicolas Belmonte, Olivier PLoS Negl Trop Dis Symposium Melioidosis is a disease caused by bacteria called B. pseudomallei. Infections can develop after contact with standing water. This disease can reach all the organs and especially the lungs. It is associated with a high mortality rate (up to 50%). Melioidosis is endemic in northern Australia and in Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, B. pseudomallei may be endemic in the Indian Ocean region and in Madagascar in particular, so clinicians and microbiologists should consider acute melioidosis as a differential diagnosis in the Indian Ocean region, in particular from Madagascar. Public Library of Science 2017-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5730118/ /pubmed/29240770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006018 Text en © 2017 Allou et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Emergence of melioidosis in the Indian Ocean region: Two new cases and a literature review
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title_short Emergence of melioidosis in the Indian Ocean region: Two new cases and a literature review
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