Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2020)

Three New Cases of Melioidosis, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

  • Bénédicte Melot,
  • Sylvaine Bastian,
  • Nathalie Dournon,
  • Eric Valade,
  • Olivier Gorgé,
  • Anne Le Fleche,
  • Charlotte Idier,
  • Mireille Vernier,
  • Elisabeth Fernandes,
  • Bruno Hoen,
  • Sébastien Breurec,
  • Michel Carles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2603.190718
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3
pp. 617 – 619

Abstract

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Melioidosis has been detected in the Caribbean, and an increasing number of cases has been reported in the past few decades, but only 2 cases were reported in Guadeloupe during the past 20 years. We describe 3 more cases that occurred during 2016–2017 and examine arguments for increasing endemicity.

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