Melioidosis and pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lympha...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Rattanaphone Phetsouvanh, Simmaly Phongmany, Paul Newton, Mayfong Mayxay, Andrew Ramsay, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Nicholas J. White
مؤلفون آخرون: Mahosot Hospital
التنسيق: مقال
منشور في: 2018
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/26844
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المؤسسة: Mahidol University
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الملخص:Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lymphadenitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.