1. Melioidosis in Odisha: A clinico-microbiological and epidemiological description of culture-confirmed cases over a 2-year period
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A. B. Dey, Rajesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Tushar K Mishra, Rashmi Ranjan Das, Chappity Preetam, Srujana Mohanty, Prakash Kumar Sasmal, Baijayantimala Mishra, Vinaykumar Hallur, Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, Bijayini Behera, Ashoka Mahapatra, and Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Melioidosis ,030106 microbiology ,Immunology ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,Microbiology ,Tertiary care ,lcsh:Microbiology ,Teaching hospital ,Tertiary Care Centers ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) ,Environmental health ,Sepsis ,burkholderia pseudomallei ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,biology ,Burkholderia pseudomallei ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,language.human_language ,Infectious Diseases ,odisha ,Tamil ,language ,Emerging infectious disease ,melioidosis ,business - Abstract
Melioidosis is an emerging infectious disease in India mostly reported from South-western coastal Karnataka and North-eastern Tamil Nadu. We speculate the existence of another major hidden focus in Odisha, one of the eastern coastal states. The clinico-epidemiological features of 47 culture-confirmed melioidosis at a tertiary care teaching hospital over a period of 2 years are reported. Septicaemia was the most common clinical presentation. Diabetes mellitus (DM) was present in 72.3% of our cases. The geo-climatic conditions of Odisha and other coastal states of India and the rise in the incidence of DM demand a nationwide surveillance of melioidosis and creation of melioidosis registry.
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- 2019