Two fatal cases of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Melioidosis is endemic in areas of Southeast Asia, however, there are no published reports from the Thai-Myanmar border. We report the first two documented cases of fatal melioidosis in this region. This is of great public health importance and highlights the need to both increase clinical awareness of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border, and to assess the true burden of disease in the area through improved case detection and Burkholderia pseudomallei prevalence studies.
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand ; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX37 7FZ, UK.
Cindy S
CS
Chu
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand.
Stuart
S
Winearls
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand ; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX37 7FZ, UK.
Clare
C
Ling
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V5Z 1M9, Canada.
Miriam Beer
MB
Torchinsky
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand.
Aung Phae
AP
Phyo
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand.
Warat
W
Haohankunnathum
Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX37 7FZ, UK ; Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Paul
P
Turner
Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.
Vanaporn
V
Wuthiekanun
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand ; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX37 7FZ, UK.
François
F
Nosten