First Case Report of Melioidosis in Guadeloupe, a French West Indies Archipelago

Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an infectious disease of humans and animals that has been documented from regions that lie 20 degree north and south of the equator. Although this agent has rarely been isolated from the Western Hemisphere, it has been found in Panama,...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 1997-07, Vol.25 (1), p.164-165
Main Authors: Pérez, Jean-Marie, Petiot, Alain, Adjidé, Crespin, Gerry, François, Goursaud, Régis, Juminer, Bertène
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archipelagos
Bacterial diseases
Bacteriology
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Reports
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Child, Preschool
Fever
Guadeloupe
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Melioidosis
Melioidosis - drug therapy
Melioidosis - microbiology
Melioidosis - physiopathology
Patient assessment
Soil pollution
Soil water
Surface water
Tropical bacterial diseases
Tropical medicine
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Summary:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an infectious disease of humans and animals that has been documented from regions that lie 20 degree north and south of the equator. Although this agent has rarely been isolated from the Western Hemisphere, it has been found in Panama, Ecuador, Haiti, Brazil, Peru, and Guyana. Cases of melioidosis have also been reported from the Lesser Antilles; one case was reported from Aruba, and, more recently, another case was reported from Martinique. We report the third documented case of melioidosis in the Lesser Antilles and the first documented case in Guadeloupe, an archipelago of the French West Indies.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/516896