Melioidosis in Mexico: a Coordinated Effort to Educate the Medical Specialists and the Community About an Unknown Disease Endemic in the Country

A call to action: time to recognise melioidosis as a neglected tropical disease

“…54 Events have even been held outside regions that are well known to be melioidosis-endemic such as Southeast Asia, for example the first-ever African melioidosis workshop in Nigeria in 2019 and those in two countries in the Americas held in Colombia in 2018 and Mexico in 2019. 55,56 The International Melioidosis Network (IMN) plays an active role in creating melioidosis awareness by organizing (inter)national events and by fostering research collaborations. 57 Such events are especially important in regions where melioidosis has only rarely been recognised but is clearly an emerging infection.…”