Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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.
Phetsouvanh
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Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Phongmany
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Newton
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Mayxay
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M
Ramsay
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A
Wuthiekanun
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White
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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