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L Gétaz1, M Abbas, L Loutan, J Schrenzel, A Iten, F Simon, A Decosterd, R Studer, P Sudre, Y Michel, P Merlani, S Emonet.
Abstract
We report the fatal case of acute melioidosis in a patient returning from Martinique with fever in November 2010. Gram-negative rods were isolated from a blood culture and Burkholderia pseudomallei identified within 24 hours after first medical contact. The patient died two days after admission to hospital despite intravenous therapy with high doses of imipenem/cilastatin and intensive care. Clinicians seeing travellers returning from the subtropics or tropics with severe pneumonia or septicaemia should consider the possibility of acute melioidosis.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21223835
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Euro Surveill ISSN： 1025-496X