Clinical and microbiological features of melioidosis in northern Vietnam

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Phuong, Doan Mai ^a   Trung, Trinh Thanh ^b   Breitbach, Katrin ^b   Tuan, Nguyen Quang ^a   Nübel, Ulrich ^c   Flunker, Gisela ^b   Khang, Dinh Duy ^d   Quang, Nguyen Xuan ^a   Steinmetz, Ivo ^b  

^a BACH MAI HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Burkholderia; Epidemiology; Genetic diversity; Melioidosis; pseudomallei; Sepsis; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPTICEMIA; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI;

EID: 58049144208     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(08)70009-9     Document Type: Article

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