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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19758">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 1, 06 January 2011
Rapid communications
Fatal acute melioidosis in a tourist returning from Martinique Island, November 2010
L G?taz 1, M Abbas 2, L Loutan 1, J Schrenzel 3,4, A Iten 5, F Simon 6, A Decosterd 7, R Studer 3, P Sudre 8, Y Michel 1, P Merlani 7, S Emonet 3,4
1. Division of Humanitarian and International Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2. Service of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
3. Bacteriology Laboratory, Department of Genetic Medicine and Laboratories, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
4. Service of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
5. Infection Control Program, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
6. Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Unit, Laveran Military Teaching Hospital, Marseille, France
7. Service of Intensive Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland.
8. General directorate of health, Department of regional affairs, economy and health, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Citation style for this article: G?taz L, Abbas M, Loutan L, Schrenzel J, Iten A, Simon F, Decosterd A, Studer R, Sudre P, Michel Y, Merlani P, Emonet S. Fatal acute melioidosis in a tourist returning from Martinique Island, November 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(1)
ii=19758. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19758
Date of submission: 02 December 2010
We report the fatal case of acute melioidosis in a patient returning from Martinique with fever in November 2010. Gram-negative rods were isolated from a blood culture and Burkholderia pseudomallei identified within 24 hours after first medical contact. The patient died two days after admission to hospital despite intravenous therapy with high doses of imipenem/cilastatin and intensive care. Clinicians seeing travellers returning from the subtropics or tropics with severe pneumonia or septicaemia should consider the possibility of acute melioidosis.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 1, 06 January 2011
Rapid communications
Fatal acute melioidosis in a tourist returning from Martinique Island, November 2010
L G?taz 1, M Abbas 2, L Loutan 1, J Schrenzel 3,4, A Iten 5, F Simon 6, A Decosterd 7, R Studer 3, P Sudre 8, Y Michel 1, P Merlani 7, S Emonet 3,4
1. Division of Humanitarian and International Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2. Service of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
3. Bacteriology Laboratory, Department of Genetic Medicine and Laboratories, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
4. Service of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
5. Infection Control Program, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
6. Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Unit, Laveran Military Teaching Hospital, Marseille, France
7. Service of Intensive Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland.
8. General directorate of health, Department of regional affairs, economy and health, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Citation style for this article: G?taz L, Abbas M, Loutan L, Schrenzel J, Iten A, Simon F, Decosterd A, Studer R, Sudre P, Michel Y, Merlani P, Emonet S. Fatal acute melioidosis in a tourist returning from Martinique Island, November 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(1)
ii=19758. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19758Date of submission: 02 December 2010
We report the fatal case of acute melioidosis in a patient returning from Martinique with fever in November 2010. Gram-negative rods were isolated from a blood culture and Burkholderia pseudomallei identified within 24 hours after first medical contact. The patient died two days after admission to hospital despite intravenous therapy with high doses of imipenem/cilastatin and intensive care. Clinicians seeing travellers returning from the subtropics or tropics with severe pneumonia or septicaemia should consider the possibility of acute melioidosis.
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