Changing epidemiology of melioidosis? A case of acute pulmonary melioidosis with fatal outcome imported from Brazil

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 871-875

  Aardema, H ^a   Luijnenburg, E M ^b   Salm, E F ^b   Bijlmer, H A ^a   Visser, C E ^c   Van'T Wout, J W ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b Intensive Care Unit   (Netherlands)

^c Leiden University Medical Center ^*  (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; DETERIORATION; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 26944452742     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004103     Document Type: Review

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