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Case Reports
. 2020 Mar;26(3):617-619.
doi: 10.3201/eid2603.190718.

Three New Cases of Melioidosis, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Bénédicte Melot, Sylvaine Bastian, Nathalie Dournon, Eric Valade, Olivier Gorgé, Anne Le Fleche, Charlotte Idier, Mireille Vernier, Elisabeth Fernandes, Bruno Hoen, Sébastien Breurec, Michel Carles
Case Reports

Three New Cases of Melioidosis, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Bénédicte Melot et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Mar.

Abstract

Melioidosis has been detected in the Caribbean, and an increasing number of cases has been reported in the past few decades, but only 2 cases were reported in Guadeloupe during the past 20 years. We describe 3 more cases that occurred during 2016-2017 and examine arguments for increasing endemicity.

Keywords: Burkholderia pseudomallei; Caribbean; France; French West Indies; Guadeloupe; bacteria; endemicity; melioidosis.

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