Melioidosis in traveler from Africa to Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1656-1659

  Morosini, María I ^a   Quereda, Carmen ^a   Gil, Horacio ^b   Anda, Pedro ^b   Núñez Murga, María ^a   Cantón, Rafael ^a   López Vélez, Rogelio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MELIOIDOSIS; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

AFRICA; BACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; GLOBAL HEALTH; GRAM-NEGATIVE; MELIOIDOSIS; SPAIN; TRAVEL; TRAVEL-RELATED INFECTIONS; TRAVELER;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AFRICA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELIOIDOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

EID: 84884229128     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1910.121785     Document Type: Article

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