title: Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
abstract: Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lymphadenitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.
authors.affiliation: Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Phetsouvanh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Phongmany
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Newton
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mayxay
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramsay
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wuthiekanun
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016957:Burkholderia pseudomallei / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007812:Laos / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology