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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Trịnh, Thành Trung
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2019
• الموضوعات: melioidosis; Burkholderia pseudomallei; animal; environment; Vietnam; public awareness
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/66950

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...