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Cutaneous Melioidosis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Melioidosis is an emerging infection in India. It usually presents as pneumonia. Melioidosis presenting as cutaneous lesions is uncommon. We present a case of cutaneous melioidosis from Southern India.
Basavaprabhu Achappa, Deepak Madi, K. Vidyalakshmi   +2 more
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Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study of <i>Burkholderia pseudomallei</i> Seroreactivity Among Febrile Patients in Northernmost Vietnam: Near-Neighbor Bloodstream Isolates, Environmental Correlates, and Spatial Clustering. [PDF]

Geohealth
Abstract Melioidosis is a potentially fatal tropical disease caused by the environmentally mediated bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. In Vietnam, melioidosis is not nationally reportable and little is known regarding its epidemiology and distribution in the northernmost mountainous provinces.
Metrailer MC, Le Quyen TT, Van Pham K, Luong TM, Jiranantasak T, Bluhm AP, Tuozzo FJ, Ha Hoang TT, Luong MH, Do BN, Pham TH, Harman MEA, Norris MH, Trung TT, Blackburn JK.   +14 more
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Melioidosis [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2018
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative environmental bacterium and the aetiological agent of melioidosis, a life-threatening infection that is estimated to account for ∼89,000 deaths per year worldwide. Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for melioidosis, and the global diabetes pandemic could increase the number of fatalities caused by ...
Wiersinga, W. Joost, Virk, Harjeet S., Torres, Alfredo G., Currie, Bart J., Peacock, Sharon J., Dance, David A. B., Limmathurotsakul, Direk   +6 more
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Glyburide reduces bacterial dissemination in a mouse model of melioidosis [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis) is an important cause of community-acquired Gram-negative sepsis in Northeast Thailand, where it is associated with a ,40% mortality rate despite antimicrobial chemotherapy. We showed in a
Krause, Kathrin, Ivo Steinmetz (392595), Krause Kathrin, Hanna K de Jong, de Jong, Hanna K., Wiersinga W. Joost, van der Poll Tom, Kathrin Krause (473325), de Jong Hanna K., Koh, Gavin C. K. W., Bast Antje, Katrin Breitbach (473324), Koh Gavin C. K. W., Kager, Liesbeth M., Hanna K. de Jong (304424), W. Joost Wiersinga (33895), Peacock, Sharon J., Hoogendijk, Arjan J., Gavin C K W Koh, Liesbeth M Kager, Wiersinga, W. Joost, Kager, Liesbeth M, Tom van der Poll, Koh, Gavin C K W, W Joost Wiersinga, Antje Bast, Peacock, Sharon J, Gavin C. K. W. Koh (185751), Sharon J. Peacock (35782), Tassili A. Weehuizen (473323), Steinmetz Ivo, Kager Liesbeth M., Sharon J Peacock, Jong, Hanna K. de, Liesbeth M. Kager (367131), Tom van der Poll (33907), Bast, Antje, de Jong, Hanna K, Hoogendijk, Arjan J, Steinmetz, Ivo, Breitbach, Katrin, Breitbach Katrin, Weehuizen Tassili A., Kathrin Krause, Weehuizen, Tassili A., Arjan J. Hoogendijk (473326), Antje Bast (473327), Hoogendijk Arjan J., Wiersinga, W Joost, Peacock Sharon J., Tassili A Weehuizen, van der Poll, Tom, Katrin Breitbach, Arjan J Hoogendijk, Weehuizen, Tassili A, Ivo Steinmetz   +55 more
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Prevention of melioidosis

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Abstract Melioidosis is a complex tropical disease linked with many complications. It is increasingly diagnosed in India. The clinical mimicry of this disease with several other common causes of pneumonia has kept the clinicians in ignorance. Usually, the diagnosis and appropriate management get delayed.
Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra, Baijayantimala Mishra   +1 more
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Defining the true sensitivity of culture for the diagnosis of melioidosis using Bayesian latent class models. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Culture remains the diagnostic gold standard for many bacterial infections, and the method against which other tests are often evaluated.
Lisa J White, Jamsen Kris, Julie A. Simpson, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Sharon J. Peacock, Chantratita, Narisara, Lisa J. White, White, Lisa, Limmathurotsakul Direk, Simpson Julie A., Chantratita, N, Sue J. Lee, Simpson, Julie A, Day, Nicholas PJ, Arayawichanont, A, Peacock, SJ, Wuthiekanun, V, Nicholas P. J. Day, Claudio Verzilli, Arayawichanont Arkhom, Narisara Chantratita, Allen Cheng, Kris Jamsen, Lee, Sue J, Julie A Simpson, Cheng Allen, Peacock, Sharon J, White, LJ, Arkhom Arayawichanont, Wuthiekanun Vanaporn, Sharon J Peacock, Lee, Sue, Cheng, Allen, Verzilli, C, Jamsen, Kris, Day Nicholas P. J., Jamsen, K, White Lisa J., Lee Sue J., Day, NP, Day, NPJ, Nicholas P J Day, Arayawichanont, Arkhom, Limmathurotsakul, Direk, Peacock, Sharon, Limmathurotsakul, D, Simpson, JA, Lee, SJ, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Simpson, Julie, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Verzilli Claudio, Peacock Sharon J., Verzilli, Claudio, Day, Nicholas, Sue J Lee, Cheng, A, White, Lisa J, Chantratita Narisara   +58 more
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T Cell Immunity to the Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase of Burkholderia pseudomallei: A Correlate of Disease Outcome in Acute Melioidosis. [PDF]

, 2015
There is an urgent need for a better understanding of adaptive immunity to Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis that is frequently associated with sepsis or death in patients in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Sumonwiriya, M, Makinde, Julia, Reynolds, Catherine, Altmann, D, Quigley, K, Rinchai, Darawan, Overbeek, S, Boyton, R, Yos, Pagnarith, Jenjaroen, Kemajittra, Maillere, Bernard, Manji, J, Yos, P, Reynolds, C, Musson, Julie, Overbeek, Saskia, Manji, Jiten, Spink, N, Bancroft, Gregory, Musson, J, Dunachie, S, Quigley, Kathryn, Bancroft, G, Goudet, Amélie, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Wuthiekanun, V, Altmann, Daniel, Robinson, John, Lertmemongkolchai, Ganjana, Makinde, J, Rinchai, D, Robinson, J, Lertmemongkolchai, G, Holden, Matthew, Maillere, B, Dunachie, Susanna, Goudet, A, Holden, M, Jenjaroen, K, Spink, Natasha, Boyton, Rosemary, Sumonwiriya, Manutsanun   +41 more
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Hepatic/splenic abscess and/or skin and soft tissue infection as predictors of melioidosis in children

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2019
Introduction: Melioidosis can have multiple organ involvement which can then mimic other infections. The aim of this study was to determine if there are any factors significantly associated with melioidosis which can inform diagnostic evaluations before
Supatjaree Chanvitan, Alan Geater, Kamolwish Laoprasopwattana   +2 more
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Melioidosis with a Pericardial Effusion, which Relapsed as a Chest Wall Abscess: A Rare Presentation [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Melioidosis, which is caused by a soil saprophyte, Burkholderia pseudomallei, is most prevalent in the south–west coast of India. Although it is frequently seen in immunocompromised patients, melioidosis can occur in apparently normal individuals ...
Rashmi Teresa Mathai K., K. Sundara Bhat, Mohammed Ashraf, Mayank Sarawag, Kumar K.P.   +4 more
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Neurologic Melioidosis [PDF]

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2013
Melioidosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in northern Australia and Southeast Asia. Diagnosis is best made by isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei from clinical specimens. A variety of clinical presentations are described, including neurologic disease.
Deuble, Martin, Aquilina, Chloe, Norton, Robert   +2 more
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