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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2008 61(2):460-461; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm488
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Research letters

In vitro activity of ceftobiprole against Burkholderia pseudomallei

Visanu Thamlikitkul* and Suwanna Trakulsomboon

Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand

* Corresponding author. Tel/Fax: +66-2-412-5994; E-mail: sivth@mahidol.ac.th

Keywords: B. pseudomallei , melioidosis , cephalosporins

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Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacterium, causes a disease called melioidosis in humans and animals.1 The bacterium is a soil organism found mainly in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. Antibiotics currently recommended for therapy of melioidosis are ceftazidime, imipenem, meropenem, amoxicillin/clavulanate, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, doxycycline and chloramphenicol.1 A development of resistance of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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