Melioidosis fatality confirmed in Peru
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#21FZ6)
The National Health Institute of the Peru Ministry of Health has confirmed a death due to melioidosis, an infection caused by the bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, according to a news release last week(computer translated). The patient is a 19-year-old woman who was traveling in the north coast of the country. She presented with pneumonia and sepsis when B. pseudomallei. She died seven ["]
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