Melioidosis
"Melioidosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A disease of humans and animals that resembles GLANDERS. It is caused by BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI and may range from a dormant infection to a condition that causes multiple abscesses, pneumonia, and bacteremia.
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D008554
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.170.531
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Melioidosis" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Melioidosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Melioidosis" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Elgawidi A, Mohsin MI, Ali F, Watts A, Monk PN, Thomas MS, Partridge LJ. A role for tetraspanin proteins in regulating fusion induced by Burkholderia thailandensis. Med Microbiol Immunol. 2020 Aug; 209(4):473-487.
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Birnie E, Claushuis TAM, Koh GCKW, Limmathurotsakul D, Day NPJ, Roelofs JJTH, Ware J, Hou B, de Vos AF, van der Poll T, van 't Veer C, Wiersinga WJ. Thrombocytopenia Impairs Host Defense Against Burkholderia pseudomallei (Melioidosis). J Infect Dis. 2019 01 29; 219(4):648-659.
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Butt AT, Thomas MS. Iron Acquisition Mechanisms and Their Role in the Virulence of Burkholderia Species. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2017; 7:460.