Melioidosis: Acute and chronic disease, relapse and re-activation

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-304

  Currie, Bart J ^a   Fisher, Dale A ^a   Anstey, Nicholas M ^a   Jacups, Susan P ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bukholderia pseudomallei; Chemotherapy; Disease status; Melioidosis; Re activation; Relapse

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MEROPENEM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHRONIC DISEASE; ERADICATION THERAPY; FATALITY; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELIOIDOSIS; RELAPSE;

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034092360     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(00)90333-X     Document Type: Article

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