“Melioidosis in Antioquia, Colombia: an emerging or endemic disease? A cases series”

Montúfar, Franco; Ochoa, Jesús; Ortega, H.; Franco, Liliana; Montúfar, M.C.; Monsalve, A.; Zapata, M.

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2015.05.023

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“…Severiche published a report in 1998 about a patient with pneumonia ( 6 ). Montufar et al described a series of 7 patients during 1998–2012, of whom 5 had bacteremic pneumonia ( 7 ). Since then, other cases of bacteremic pneumonia have been reported ( 8 , 9 ), as well as 1 case of chronic lung melioidosis in a patient on Colombia’s west Caribbean coast ( 10 ).…”

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Case Series Study of Melioidosis, Colombia

Rodríguez¹,

Morales-López²,

Rodríguez³

et al. 2019

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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We report 7 cases of melioidosis in Colombia and comparision of 4 commercial systems for identifying Burkholderia pseudomallei . Phoenix systems were not a definitive method for identifying B. pseudomallei . For accurate identification, we recommend including this bacterium in the library databases of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry systems in Latin America.

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Case Series Study of Melioidosis, Colombia

Rodríguez¹,

Morales-López²,

Rodríguez³

et al. 2019

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…Three cases of human melioidosis have been described in Venezuela from 1995 to 2003 [ 4 , 6 ]. In Colombia, after the first report in 1998 [ 27 ], a total of 11 further cases have been described up to 2015 ( Table 1 ) [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 13 , 14 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ]. Initially, the reports were clustered in the region of Antioquia, where there is a university referral hospital, although two cases were reported from other regions.…”

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Melioidosis in South America

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Melioidosis is an emerging disease in the Americas. This paper reviews confirmed cases, the presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei and the organization of national surveillance policies for melioidosis in South America. Confirmed cases in humans have been reported from Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and Peru. The bacterium has been isolated from the environment in Brazil and Peru. The state of Ceará, northeastern region of Brazil, is the only place where specific public strategies and policies for melioidosis have been developed. We also discuss the urgent need for health authorities in South America to pay greater attention to this disease, which has the potential to have a high impact on public health, and the importance of developing coordinated strategies amongst countries in this region.

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“…Only 3 cases were reported from Panama, 1 each in 1947, 1948, and 2011. However, cases were reported in Antioquia, Colombia ( 1 , 7 , 8 ), near the border with Panama. Melioidosis might be misdiagnosed and underreported because of the lack of diagnostic resources in the rural areas where cases are most likely to occur ( 9 , 10 ).…”

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