Empirical Cephalosporin Treatment of Melioidosis
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Empirical cephalosporin treatment of melioidosis.
treated patients, 68.3% of amoxicillin/clavulanic acid–treated paMelioidosis, or infection by Burkholderia pseudomallei, remains tients, and 78.3% of cefotaximeor ceftriaxone-treated patients. a serious cause of mortality and morbidity in northeastern Thailand Among these septicemic patients, the mortality rates were 59.6%, [1]. During the months of the rainy season, B. pseudomallei is the 67.5...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/517787