Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Burkholderia pseudomallei
- Melioidosis