Chu Cindy S, Winearls Stuart, Ling Clare, Torchinsky Miriam Beer, Phyo Aung Phae, Haohankunnathum Warat, Turner Paul, Wuthiekanun Vanaporn, Nosten François
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand ; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX37 7FZ, UK.
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 63110, Thailand.
F1000Res. 2014 Jan 6;3:4. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.3-4.v2. eCollection 2014.
Melioidosis is endemic in areas of Southeast Asia, however, there are no published reports from the Thai-Myanmar border. We report the first two documented cases of fatal melioidosis in this region. This is of great public health importance and highlights the need to both increase clinical awareness of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border, and to assess the true burden of disease in the area through improved case detection and Burkholderia pseudomallei prevalence studies.
类鼻疽在东南亚地区呈地方性流行，但泰国与缅甸边境地区尚无相关报道。我们报告了该地区首例有记录的两例致命类鼻疽病例。这具有重大的公共卫生意义，凸显了提高泰国与缅甸边境地区对类鼻疽临床认识的必要性，以及通过改进病例检测和类鼻疽杆菌流行率研究来评估该地区疾病真实负担的必要性。
