Editorial commentary: Melioidosis in puerto rico: The iceberg slowly emerges

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 251-253

  Dance, David A B ^a,b  

^a MAHOSOT HOSPITAL   (Laos)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B. pseudomallei; Caribbean; endemic; melioidosis; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELIOIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; SAPROTROPH; SCREENING; SKIN INJURY; CONTACT EXAMINATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CONTACT TRACING; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS;

EID: 84924968704     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu768     Document Type: Note

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