Imported melioidosis with an isolated cutaneous presentation in a 90-year-old traveller from Bangladesh

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-25

  Ezzedine, K ^a   Malvy, D ^b   Steels, E ^a   De Dobbeeler, G ^a   Struelens, M ^a   Jacobs, F ^a   Heenen, M ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Imported disease; Inoculation lesion; Melioidosis; South Asia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; DOXYCYCLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BANGLADESH; BELGIUM; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELBOW; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MELIOIDOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; TRAVEL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; BANGLADESH; BELGIUM; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELIOIDOSIS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 33947326308     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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