Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2001 · 49 citations · 4 references
Veterinary MedicineInfectious DiseasesInternal MedicineInfectious Disease PathologyMedical MicrobiologySepsisClinical Recognition Of SepsisComplications Of SepsisSepsis DiagnosisSeptic ShockTropical MedicineProspective Case StudyRenal CalculiSeptic Arthritis Complications
Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lymphadenitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.
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