Imported melioidosis, Israel, 2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1809-1811

  Cahn, Avivit ^a   Koslowsky, Benjamin ^a   Nir Paz, Ran ^a   Temper, Violeta ^a   Hiller, Nurit ^a   Karlinsky, Alla ^b,c   Gur, Itzhak ^b,c   Hidalgo Grass, Carlos ^a   Heyman, Samuel N ^a   Moses, Allon E ^a   Block, Colin ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEVER; FOOT ABSCESS; FOOT DISEASE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ISRAEL; KIDNEY ABSCESS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTURIA; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MELIOIDOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATE GLAND ABSCESS; RASH; SPLEEN ABSCESS; THAILAND; URINALYSIS; URINE; URINE CULTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THAILAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350434507     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.090038     Document Type: Article

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