melioidosis

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Since 2002, when he began researching melioidosis at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (Moru) in Bangkok, Direk Limmathurotsakul has found official recognition of the disease to be similarly low. “Melioidosis is so neglected that the World Health Organisation doesn't even list it as a ...

Abstract: Fourteen cases of reported melioidosis in Japan were reviewed. The mean age was 52.4 years (33–69 years), and all patients were male. All of the presumed exposures originated in Southeast Asia. The most common underlying disease was diabetes mellitus, including those patients with ...

"The tests had come back positive and I actually had melioidosis," he said. "I was told to report to hospital immediately, on the day." In Darwin, melioidosis is sometimes called Nightcliff Gardeners Disease, a reference to the suburb where Mr Creek lives. He describes being "pretty dejected" when he got the ...

As if cyclones, crocodiles and stingers weren't enough to worry about, Western Australians are being warned to take precautions against a potentially deadly and ancient disease that may have been stirred up by recent cyclones. Each year there are dozens of melioidosis cases reported across northern ...

Endemic but not exclusive to Malaysia, melioidosis typically affects farmers and construction builders. The disease's agent typically lives under about a foot of soil or in contaminated water. Nicknamed the “great mimicker,” melioidosis has no specific symptoms and can easily be confused with other endemic ...

Melioidosis (also known as Whitmore disease and Nightcliff gardener's disease) is caused by the bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. The disease though somewhat rare has been seen in areas of Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, particularly after heavy rains. In Thailand it is considered a disease ...

Melioidosis lives beneath the soil's surface all year round in the tropics, but can become airborne in the wet season as heavy rains move it to mud and water. It infects a person through open cuts and wounds, and it can be inhaled. Brad Crockford breathed in the bacterium in December 2016, while he was ...