Melioidosis -- Peru
The National Health Institute (INS) of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) confirms a case of melioidosis in a 19-year-old woman, who died 47 days ago in a clinic in Lima. She was touring in the north coast of the country, and her diagnosis was pneumonia and sepsis by the bacterium _Burkholderia pseudomallei_, which produces a disease called melioidosis.
Melioidosis is a potentially fatal disease for which treatment is available. It is acquired mainly by the contact of the skin (with small
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