CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico

Melioidosis is caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, endemic to northern Australia and Southeast Asia. We present a patient who traveled to Mexico, returned to the United States, and developed progressive manifestations of melioidosis, culminating as central nervous system...

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Autores principales: Donahue, Matthew A, Newcomb, Geoffrey, Spinella, Sara, Prasad, Paritosh, Liesveld, Jane, Egan, Cristina T, Smith, Glenda L, Newman, Alexandra P, Bower, William A, Blaney, David D, Gee, Jay E, Elrod, Mindy G, Chuang, Sally, Babu, Tara M
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6377934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30793002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz005
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author Donahue, Matthew A
Newcomb, Geoffrey
Spinella, Sara
Prasad, Paritosh
Liesveld, Jane
Egan, Cristina T
Smith, Glenda L
Newman, Alexandra P
Bower, William A
Blaney, David D
Gee, Jay E
Elrod, Mindy G
Chuang, Sally
Babu, Tara M
author_facet Donahue, Matthew A
Newcomb, Geoffrey
Spinella, Sara
Prasad, Paritosh
Liesveld, Jane
Egan, Cristina T
Smith, Glenda L
Newman, Alexandra P
Bower, William A
Blaney, David D
Gee, Jay E
Elrod, Mindy G
Chuang, Sally
Babu, Tara M
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description Melioidosis is caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, endemic to northern Australia and Southeast Asia. We present a patient who traveled to Mexico, returned to the United States, and developed progressive manifestations of melioidosis, culminating as central nervous system disease. Standard therapy was contraindicated, and a prolonged intensive phase was employed.
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spelling pubmed-63779342019-02-21 CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico Donahue, Matthew A Newcomb, Geoffrey Spinella, Sara Prasad, Paritosh Liesveld, Jane Egan, Cristina T Smith, Glenda L Newman, Alexandra P Bower, William A Blaney, David D Gee, Jay E Elrod, Mindy G Chuang, Sally Babu, Tara M Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Melioidosis is caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, endemic to northern Australia and Southeast Asia. We present a patient who traveled to Mexico, returned to the United States, and developed progressive manifestations of melioidosis, culminating as central nervous system disease. Standard therapy was contraindicated, and a prolonged intensive phase was employed. Oxford University Press 2019-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6377934/ /pubmed/30793002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz005 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Donahue, Matthew A
Newcomb, Geoffrey
Spinella, Sara
Prasad, Paritosh
Liesveld, Jane
Egan, Cristina T
Smith, Glenda L
Newman, Alexandra P
Bower, William A
Blaney, David D
Gee, Jay E
Elrod, Mindy G
Chuang, Sally
Babu, Tara M
CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico
title CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico
title_full CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico
title_fullStr CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico
title_short CNS Melioidosis in a Traveler Returning from Cabo, Mexico
title_sort cns melioidosis in a traveler returning from cabo, mexico
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6377934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30793002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz005
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