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. 2023 Jun;86(6):e161-e163.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.03.022. Epub 2023 Mar 30.

Emergence of meropenem and levofloxacin resistance in Burkholderia pseudomallei in Taiwan

Pin-Han Wu  1 , Chih-Hao Chen  1 , Wen-Hsin Hsih  1 , Chia-Huei Chou  1 , Chih-Yu Chi  1 , Mao-Wang Ho  1 , Yu-Tzu Lin  2 , Hsiu-Hsien Lin  3 , Kun-Hao Tseng  3 , Po-Ren Hsueh  4
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Emergence of meropenem and levofloxacin resistance in Burkholderia pseudomallei in Taiwan

Pin-Han Wu et al. J Infect. 2023 Jun.
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Fig. 1
Annual reported cases of melioidosis in Taiwan. The data were retrieved from Notifiable Infectious Diseases Statistics System in the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (https://nidss.cdc.gov.tw/). Red-dotted line indicates the number of reported cases in average per year between 2007 and 2019 and green-dotted line denotes number of reported cases in average per year during the pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020–2022.
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Fig. 2
Chest radiography demonstrating (A) ground-glass opacity lesions over the left upper lung (black arrow) at admission and (B) bilateral lung infiltrations (white arrows) on Day 13 of hospitalization.
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