Melioidosis in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

David AB Dance ORCID logo; Manophab Luangraj ORCID logo; SayaphetRattanavong; NoikaseumsySithivong; OulayphoneVongnalaysane; ManivanhVongsouvath; Paul NNewton; (2018) Melioidosis in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Trop Med Infect Dis, 3 (1). p. 21. ISSN 2414-6366 DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed3010021
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Melioidosis is clearly highly endemic in Laos, although the disease has only been diagnosed regularly in humans (1359 cases) since 1999, and only a single animal case has been microbiologically confirmed. Burkholderia pseudomallei is extensively and abundantly present in soil and surface water in central and southern Laos, but the true distribution of the disease across the country remains to be determined. Surveillance is almost non-existent and diagnostic microbiology services are not yet well established, whilst awareness of melioidosis is low amongst policy-makers, healthcare providers, and the public. It is hoped that this situation will improve over the next decade as the country rapidly develops, especially as this is likely to be accompanied by a further increase in the prevalence of diabetes, meaning that more people in this predominantly agricultural population will be at risk of contracting melioidosis.



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