Rattanaphone PhetsouvanhSimmaly PhongmanyPaul NewtonMayfong MayxayAndrew RamsayVanaporn WuthiekanunNicholas J. WhiteMahosot HospitalMahidol UniversityJohn Radcliffe Hospital2018-09-072018-09-072001-02-15Clinical Infectious Diseases. Vol.32, No.4 (2001), 653-654105848382-s2.0-0035864526https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/26844Melioidosis has not been recognized previously in Laos, but within months of starting a prospective study of community acquired septicemia in Vientiane, 2 patients with melioidosis were identified. One was a previously healthy, 44-year-old female rice farmer who presented with supraclavicular lymphadenitis and the other was a 74-year-old man with diabetes and renal calculi who was receiving corticosteroids and had septicemia and septic arthritis.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1086/318713