Re-emergence of melioidosis in Myanmar

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Aung, May Kyi ^a   Mar, Thin Thin ^a  

^a University of Medicine 2   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Bacteriology; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Clinical laboratory techniques; Infection; Melioidosis; Myanmar

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MYANMAR; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUS; SKIN ABSCESS;

ABSCESS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELLS, CULTURED; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MYANMAR; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI;

EID: 58049137459     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(08)70004-X     Document Type: Article

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