Journal article
Emerging of Melioidosis in Indonesia
- Abstract:
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Melioidosis is known to be highly endemic in parts of southeast Asia and northern Australia; however, cases are rarely reported in Indonesia. Here we report three cases of melioidosis in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia occurring between 2013 and 2014. Two patients died and the other was lost to follow-up. Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from all three cases were identified by the VITEK2 Compact installed in the hospital in 2012. None of the three patients reported received antimicrobia...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Funding agency for:
Dance, D
Limmathurotsakul, D
Grant:
089275/H/09/Z
101103/Z/13/Z
Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital
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Hasanuddin University
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2015-10-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-1645
- ISSN:
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0002-9637
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:580053
- UUID:
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uuid:061a0be1-6855-438f-a937-a7bc03d50d45
- Local pid:
- pubs:580053
- Source identifiers:
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580053
- Deposit date:
- 2015-12-15
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- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2015 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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