Human melioidosis, Malawi, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 981-984

  Katangwe, Thembi ^a   Purcell, Janet ^b   Bar Zeev, Naor ^a,b,d   Denis, Brigitte ^b   Montgomery, Jacqui ^b,c   Alaerts, Maaike ^b   Heyderman, Robert Simon ^b,c   Dance, David A B ^e,f   Kennedy, Neil ^a   Feasey, Nicholas ^g   Moxon, Christopher Alan ^a,b,c,d  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e MAHOSOT HOSPITAL   (Laos)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; DACTYLITIS; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOOT EDEMA; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IRRITABILITY; KWASHIORKOR; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAWI; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETICULOCYTE; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

AFRICA; BACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHILDREN; INFANT; MALAWI; MELIOIDOSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877942115     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1906.120717     Document Type: Article

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