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"Melioidosis in Antioquia, Colombia: an emerging or endemic disease? A cases series"

Montúfar FE 1 , Ochoa JE 2 , Ortega H 3 , Franco L 4 , Montúfar MC 5 , Monsalve A 5 Show all authors , Jaramillo C 5 , Zapata M 5

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  • 1 Infectious Diseases Section, Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital, Medellín, Colombia; Pulmonology Unit, León XIII Clinic of Antioquia University, Medellín, Colombia; Research Group in Respiratory and Infectious Diseases (GIERI), Medellín, Colombia. Electronic address: frmontufar@yahoo.com
  • 2 Epidemiology Group, National School of Public Health, Antioquia University, Medellín, Colombia
  • 3 Internal Medicine and Pulmonology, Antioquia University, Medellín, Colombia
  • 4 Cardiovascular Clinic, Medellín, Colombia
  • 5 Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellín, Colombia; Research Group in Respiratory and Infectious Diseases (GIERI), Medellín, Colombia
Int J Infect Dis, 2015 Aug;37:50-7.
PMID: 26051974 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.05.023

Abstract

Melioidosis is endemic in Malaysia, the southwest of Thailand, and northern Australia. The incidence in Thailand is 4.4/1000000 inhabitants, where it causes 19% of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and 20% of bacteremic pneumonia, and the mortality is 50%. Sporadic cases have been described in Central and South America. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical and epidemiological features and ecological characteristics of melioidosis in Antioquia, Colombia.

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