Melioidosis in Vietnam: Recently Improved Recognition but still an Uncertain Disease Burden after Almost a Century of Reporting

The first cases of human melioidosis were described in Vietnam in the 1920s, almost a century ago. It was in Vietnam in the thirties that the saprophytic nature of B. pseudomallei was first recognized. Although a significant number of French and U.S. soldiers acquired the disease during the Vietn...

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Main Author: Trịnh, Thành Trung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2019
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Online Access:http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/66950
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Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Language: English