Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2013)

Human Melioidosis, Malawi, 2011

  • Thembi Katangwe,
  • Janet Purcell,
  • Naor Bar-Zeev,
  • Brigitte Denis,
  • Jacqui Montgomery,
  • Maaike Alaerts,
  • Robert Simon Heyderman,
  • David A.B. Dance,
  • Neil Kennedy,
  • Nicholas Feasey,
  • Christopher Alan Moxon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1906.120717
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 6
pp. 981 – 984

Abstract

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A case of human melioidosis caused by a novel sequence type of Burkholderia pseudomallei occurred in a child in Malawi, southern Africa. A literature review showed that human cases reported from the continent have been increasing.

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