Global Burden and Challenges of Melioidosis

• Glavni autor: Dance, David AB (auth)
• Daljnji autori: Limmathurotsakul, Direk (auth)
• Format: Elektronički Poglavlje knjige
• Jezik: engleski
• Izdano: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Teme: Medicine; South America; Papua New Guinea; Cambodia; Laos; prevention; environmental; Seychelles; Africa; India; Lao PDR; western Indian Ocean; animal; treatment; Hong Kong; transmission modes; Madagascar; Thailand; Middle East; bacteriology; Vietnam; public awareness; Burkholderia; MLST; Sri Lanka; melioidosis; veterinary; South Asia; mortality; Caribbean; Australia; Central America; Myanmar; Malaysia; awareness; Réunion; diagnosis; Mauritius; Melioidosis; clinical; tropical medicine; B. pseudomallei; Singapore; Oceania; epidemiology; China; genomics; Burkholderia pseudomallei; surveillance; Philippines; environment; Bangladesh; Mexico; Indonesia
• Online pristup: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book is the definitive reference regarding the global status of melioidosis in 2018. Melioidosis is one of the most neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), so much so that it is not even included in the WHO list of NTDs. Yet modeling suggests that it kills more people worldwide every year than dise...