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Volume 19, Number 6—June 2013
Dispatch

Human Melioidosis, Malawi, 2011

Thembi Katangwe, Janet Purcell, Naor Bar-Zeev, Brigitte Denis, Jacqui Montgomery, Maaike Alaerts, Robert Simon Heyderman, David A.B. Dance, Neil Kennedy, Nicholas Feasey1, and Christopher Alan Moxon1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi (T. Katangwe, N. Bar-Zeev, N. Kennedy, C.A. Moxon); University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre (J. Purcell, N. Bar-Zeev, B. Denis, J. Montgomery, M. Alaerts, R.S. Heyderman, N. Feasey, C.A. Moxon); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (R.S. Heyderman, J. Montgomery, C.A. Moxon); University of Liverpool, Liverpool (N. Bar-Zeev, N. Feasey, C.A.Moxon); Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (D.A.B. Dance); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (D.A.B. Dance); Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK (N. Feasey)

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Table 1

Melioidosis in animals, Africa

Year (reference) Country Animal Clinical characteristics Method of identification
1936 (6) Madagascar Pig Lymphadenopathy Passaged through guinea pig (tissue from submaxillary gland)
1960 (7) Chad Goat Lymphadenopathy Isolated from mesenteric ganglia
1960 (8) Africa* Camel Retropharyngeal abscess Inoculation and sacrifice of guinea pig
1972 (8) Niger, Burkina Faso Pigs (>100 cases) Abscesses in liver, spleen, and lung in apparently healthy pigs Not described
1995 (9) South Africa Goat Mammary gland and renal abscesses Biochemical and phenotypic characteristics

*Specific country of acquisition was not detailed.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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