Melioidosis--should it be a notifiable disease in Malaysia?
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چکیده
In 1911 Alfred Whitmore and C.S. Krishnaswami noticed that morphine addicts in Rangoon were afflicted by a lethal illness bearing a striking similarity to glanders!,2. Autopsy findings were characterized by widespread caseous consolidation of the lungs with abscesses in the liver, spleen, kidney and subcutaneous tissues. Glanders, an infection caused by Burkholderia mallei, is predominantly, a disease of horses characterized by abscess formation. Whitmore proposed the name Bacilluspseudomallei for the newly discovered bacterium.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Medical journal of Malaysia
دوره 60 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005