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Title: Melioidosis in Mauritius.(Dispatches)
Author: Mohammad Iqbal Issack
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Page: 139(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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We report the first case of human melioidosis from Mauritius, where Burkholderia pseudomallei has never been isolated. The patient was immunocompromised, had never traveled abroad, and had a history of regular exposure to mud. She became ill at a time when rainfall was higher than the month average.
******** Melioidosis is an infectious disease of humans and animals caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei (1). Most documented cases occur in Southeast Asia and northern Australia (2). In recent years, melioidosis has increasingly been recognized in the Indian subcontinent (3). Only a few cases have been reported in South America (4) and Africa (5). In the islands of the southwest Indian Ocean, although no human cases have been reported, B. pseudomallei has been...
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