Risk Factors for Melioidosis and Bacteremic Melioidosis

Risk factors for melioidosis and bacteremic melioidosis.

A case-control study was conducted in four hospitals in northeastern Thailand to identify risk factors for melioidosis and bacteremic melioidosis. Cases were patients with culture-proven melioidosis, and there were two types of controls (those with infections, i.e., with community-acquired septicemia caused by other bacteria, and those without infection, i.e., randomly selected patients admitte...

Equine Melioidosis in Iran

Misdiagnosing Melioidosis

cattle (2,8). Taken together, the prevalence of EHEC serotype O145:H– in cats, humans, and cattle might indicate that the girl was probably more likely the infection source for the cat than vice versa. Third, a cycle of mutual infection and reinfection between the girl and her pet cat cannot be ruled out. Although the excretion rate for EHEC changes over time and EHEC can therefore remain undet...

Etymologia: Melioidosis

In Response: We agree with Montgomery et al. (1) that Chagas disease is not directly transmitted by dogs to humans. However, we emphasize that Chagas disease is in the southern United States even if risk for infection is extremely low. A study in Mexico found direct correlation of seropositivity between humans and dogs, suggesting that testing dogs may help identify prevalence of Trypanosoma cr...

Localized melioidosis.

Introduction Melioidosis, a tropical and sub tropical infectious disease that strikes slowly, is hard to diagnose and eventually fatal and remains an emerging infectious disease with serious environmental and health problems. Melioidosis remains under-recognized in many regions of the world because of its limited understanding among clinicians and microbiologists that leads to misidentification...