Severe sepsis due to melioidosis [13]

Chest

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1282-

  De Keulenaer, Bart L ^a   Cheng, Allen C ^b  

^a ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; MELIOIDOSIS; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 33750087505     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.130.4.1282     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

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2. Cheng AC, Stephens DP, Anstey NM, et al. Adjunctive granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for treatment of septic shock due to melioidosis. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 38:32-37
3. Cheng AC, Jacups SP, Anstev NM, et al. A proposed scoring system for predicting mortality in melioidosis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2003; 97:577-581
4. Currie BJ, Fisher DA, Howard DM, et al. Endemic melioidosis in tropical northern Australia: a 10 year prospective study and review of the literature. Clin Infect Dis 2000; 31:981-986
5. Cheng AC, Peacock SJ, Limmathurotsakul D et al. Prospective evaluation of a rapid immunochromogenic cassette test for the diagnosis of melioidosis in northeast Thailand. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2006; 100:64-67