Imported cutaneous melioidosis in traveler, Belgium [4]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 946-947

  Ezzedine, Khaled ^a   Heenen, Michel ^a   Malvy, Denis ^b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b University Hospital Center   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE;

AGED; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LETTER; MELIOIDOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION;

EID: 34249989327     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1306.061460     Document Type: Letter

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