1. Melioidosis Imported from West Africa to Europe
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Horacio Gil, Pedro Anda, Bruno Lobo, Juan Cuadros, Graciela Marabé, Teresa Arroyo Peña Gómez-Herruz, Julio De Miguel, and Ruth Marcos
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Wet season ,Veterinary medicine ,Melioidosis ,biology ,business.industry ,Burkholderia pseudomallei ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,West africa ,Disease susceptibility ,Infectious Diseases ,Virology ,parasitic diseases ,Medicine ,Parasitology ,Socioeconomics ,business - Abstract
We report the first case of imported melioidosis in Spain from a diabetic immigrant who visited West Africa during the rainy season. Because of the unusual presentation of this disease in Africa, clinical and microbiological diagnosis of imported melioidosis from this continent can be very elusive.
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- 2011
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