Journal article
Melioidosis: misdiagnosed in Nepal
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BACKGROUND: Melioidosis is a life-threatening infectious disease that is caused by gram negative bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei. This bacteria occurs as an environmental saprophyte typically in endemic regions of south-east Asia and northern Australia. Therefore, patients with melioidosis are at high risk of being misdiagnosed and/or under-diagnosed in South Asia.
CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report two cases of melioidosis from Nepal. Both of th...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 176
- Publication date:
- 2019-02-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-02-08
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1471-2334
- Pmid:
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30782129
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:975973
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uuid:c6da9480-73d6-476a-a73e-c5be03917495
- Local pid:
- pubs:975973
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975973
- Deposit date:
- 2019-04-04
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- Shrestha et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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