Melioidosis and Pandora's box in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Phetsouvanh R., Phongmany S., Newton P., Mayxay M., Ramsay A., Wuthiekanun V., White NJ.
Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lymphadenitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.