1. Imported melioidosis, Israel, 2008.
- Author
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Cahn A, Koslowsky B, Nir-Paz R, Temper V, Hiller N, Karlinsky A, Gur I, Hidalgo-Grass C, Heyman SN, Moses AE, and Block C
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- Adult, Burkholderia pseudomallei genetics, Burkholderia pseudomallei isolation & purification, Communicable Diseases, Emerging diagnosis, Humans, Israel epidemiology, Male, Medical Laboratory Personnel, Melioidosis diagnosis, Occupational Exposure, Risk Assessment, Thailand ethnology, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Communicable Diseases, Emerging epidemiology, Emigrants and Immigrants, Melioidosis epidemiology
- Abstract
In 2008, melioidosis was diagnosed in an agricultural worker from Thailand in the southern Jordan Valley in Israel. He had newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, fever, multiple abscesses, and osteomyelitis. Burkholderia pseudomallei was isolated from urine and blood. Four of 10 laboratory staff members exposed to the organism received chemoprophylaxis, 3 of whom had adverse events.
- Published
- 2009
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