A deadly thorn: A case of imported melioidosis (multiple letters) [5]

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9157, 1999, Pages 1016-1017

  Torrens, J K ^a   McWhinney, P H M ^a   Tompkins, D S ^a   Peltroche Llacsahuanga, H ^a   Haase, G ^a  

^a SEACROFT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME;

ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INJURY; THAILAND; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; FATALITY; INJURY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SKIN; TRAVEL;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BACTEREMIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; THAILAND; TRAVEL; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0033586184     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)70729-7     Document Type: Letter

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