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Case Reports
. 2013 Jun;19(6):981-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid1906.120717.

Human melioidosis, Malawi, 2011

Thembi Katangwe  1 , Janet Purcell, Naor Bar-Zeev, Brigitte Denis, Jacqui Montgomery, Maaike Alaerts, Robert Simon Heyderman, David A B Dance, Neil Kennedy, Nicholas Feasey, Christopher Alan Moxon
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Human melioidosis, Malawi, 2011

Thembi Katangwe et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Jun.

Abstract

A case of human melioidosis caused by a novel sequence type of Burkholderia pseudomallei occurred in a child in Malawi, southern Africa. A literature review showed that human cases reported from the continent have been increasing.

Keywords: Africa; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Malawi; Melioidosis; bacteria; children; infant; osteomyelitis.

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