Journal article
Increasing incidence of human melioidosis in Northeast Thailand.
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Melioidosis is a serious community-acquired infectious disease caused by the Gram-negative environmental bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. A prospective cohort study identified 2,243 patients admitted to Sappasithiprasong Hospital in northeast Thailand with culture-confirmed melioidosis between 1997 and 2006. These data were used to calculate an average incidence rate for the province of 12.7 cases of melioidosis per 100,000 people per year. Incidence increased incrementally from 8.0 (95% ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
- Volume:
- 82
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1113-1117
- Publication date:
- 2010-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-1645
- ISSN:
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0002-9637
- Source identifiers:
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58634
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- English
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pubs:58634
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- pubs:58634
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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