Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua

Melioidosis is a disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. Highly endemic areas include tropical Australia and Southeast Asia, though cases have been reported in the Americas. To our knowledge this is the first case to have occurred due to presumed exposure in Nicaragua, demonstrating the need fo...

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Autores principales: Pasupneti, Tejasvi, Munekata, Mark, Saith, Sunita, Filler, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8577479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01318
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author Pasupneti, Tejasvi
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description Melioidosis is a disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. Highly endemic areas include tropical Australia and Southeast Asia, though cases have been reported in the Americas. To our knowledge this is the first case to have occurred due to presumed exposure in Nicaragua, demonstrating the need for increased awareness. In addition, the severity of melioidosis also varies widely and more research is needed on the pattern of disease particularly in non-endemic regions.
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spelling pubmed-85774792021-11-15 Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua Pasupneti, Tejasvi Munekata, Mark Saith, Sunita Filler, Scott IDCases Case Report Melioidosis is a disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. Highly endemic areas include tropical Australia and Southeast Asia, though cases have been reported in the Americas. To our knowledge this is the first case to have occurred due to presumed exposure in Nicaragua, demonstrating the need for increased awareness. In addition, the severity of melioidosis also varies widely and more research is needed on the pattern of disease particularly in non-endemic regions. Elsevier 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8577479/ /pubmed/34786339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01318 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua
title Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua
title_full Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua
title_fullStr Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua
title_short Disseminated melioidosis in a patient from Nicaragua
title_sort disseminated melioidosis in a patient from nicaragua
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8577479/
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