Melioidosis in Southern Vietnam: clinical surveillance and environmental sampling.
From 1992-1998, Burkholderia pseudomallei was isolated from only 9 (0.25%) of 3653 cultures of blood from febrile patients admitted to the Centre for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, an infectious disease referral center for southern Vietnam. Soil was sampled from 407 sites in 147 rice fields...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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