Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia

Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia

We conducted a retrospective review of 135 patients with melioidosis in Pahang from January 2000 to June 2003. Patients were mostly male (78.5%) and Malay (83%) with a median age of 51 years. Seventy four percent of patients were diabetic. Common presentations were pneumonia (40.7%), septicaemic wit...

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Main Authors: How, Soon Hin, Ng, K H, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Shah, Anis, Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Medical Association 2005
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R Medicine (General)
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spelling iium-36632016-03-10T06:50:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3663/ Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia How, Soon Hin Ng, K H Ab Rahman, Jamalludin Shah, Anis Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf R Medicine (General) We conducted a retrospective review of 135 patients with melioidosis in Pahang from January 2000 to June 2003. Patients were mostly male (78.5%) and Malay (83%) with a median age of 51 years. Seventy four percent of patients were diabetic. Common presentations were pneumonia (40.7%), septicaemic without obvious source of infection (19.3%) and multiple organ involvement (15.6%). Only 32.7% were given appropriate antibiotics empirically. The overall mortality was 54% with most deaths (65%) occurring within 48 hours of admission. Patients with pneumonia, multiple organ involvement and septicaemic of unknown source had higher mortality as compared to patients with subcutaneous, musculoskeletal or single internal organ involvement without pneumonia (p < 0.001). The relapse rate was 19.2%. Malaysian Medical Association 2005 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3663/1/Melioidosis_Pahang.pdf How, Soon Hin and Ng, K H and Ab Rahman, Jamalludin and Shah, Anis and Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf (2005) Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia. The Medical Journal of Malaysia, 60 (5). pp. 606-613. ISSN 0300-5283 http://www.e-mjm.org/2005/v60n5/Melioidosis_Pahang.pdf
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How, Soon Hin
Ng, K H
Ab Rahman, Jamalludin
Shah, Anis
Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf
Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia
description We conducted a retrospective review of 135 patients with melioidosis in Pahang from January 2000 to June 2003. Patients were mostly male (78.5%) and Malay (83%) with a median age of 51 years. Seventy four percent of patients were diabetic. Common presentations were pneumonia (40.7%), septicaemic without obvious source of infection (19.3%) and multiple organ involvement (15.6%). Only 32.7% were given appropriate antibiotics empirically. The overall mortality was 54% with most deaths (65%) occurring within 48 hours of admission. Patients with pneumonia, multiple organ involvement and septicaemic of unknown source had higher mortality as compared to patients with subcutaneous, musculoskeletal or single internal organ involvement without pneumonia (p < 0.001). The relapse rate was 19.2%.
format Article
author How, Soon Hin
Ng, K H
Ab Rahman, Jamalludin
Shah, Anis
Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf
author_facet How, Soon Hin
Ng, K H
Ab Rahman, Jamalludin
Shah, Anis
Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf
author_sort How, Soon Hin
title Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia
title_short Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia
title_full Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia
title_fullStr Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Melioidosis in Pahang, Malaysia
title_sort melioidosis in pahang, malaysia
publisher Malaysian Medical Association
publishDate 2005
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3663/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3663/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3663/1/Melioidosis_Pahang.pdf
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