Severe coinfection of melioidosis and dengue fever in Northeastern Brazil: First case report;Coinfecção grave de melioidose e dengue no Nordeste do Brasil: Primeiro caso

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 132-133

  Macedo, Rafael Nogueira ^a   Rocha, Felipe Araujo ^a   Rolim, Dionne Bezerra ^b   Vilar, Dina Cortez Lima Feitosa ^c   Araújo, Fernanda Montenegro de Carvalho ^d   Vieira, Nélia Nogueira ^b   Teixeira, Juliana Rodrigues ^b   Carvalho, Maíza Colares ^a,b   Oliveira, Francisco George Magalhães ^a   Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de Góes ^e,f  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^c Escola de Saúde Pública do Ceará Paulo Marcelo Martins Rodrigues   (Brazil)

^d Lab Ctrl de Saúde Pub   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^f Faculdade Christus   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coinfection; Dengue fever; Melioidosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; BILIRUBIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CREATININE; ETHAMBUTOL; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM; TEICOPLANIN; UREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAZIL; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 1; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REHYDRATION; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; COINFECTION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DENGUE VIRUS TYPE 1;

EID: 84857989227     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822012000100028     Document Type: Article

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