Three New Cases of Melioidosis, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Bénédicte Melot (1) , Sylvaine Bastian (1) , Eric Valade (2, 3) , Nathalie Dournon (1) , Olivier Gorgé (3) , Anne Le Fleche-Mateos (4) , Charlotte Idier (1) , Mireille Vernier (5) , Elisabeth Fernandes (5) , Bruno Hoen (1, 6) , Sébastien Breurec (7, 1, 6) , Michel Carles (1, 6)

1 CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe]
2 EVDG - École du Val de Grâce
3 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
4 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]
5 Centre Hospitalier de Basse-Terre [Guadeloupe]
6 UAG - Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
7 Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe

Melioidosis has been detected in the Caribbean, and an increasing number of cases has been reported in the past few decades, but only 2 cases were reported in Guadeloupe during the past 20 years. We describe 3 more cases that occurred during 2016-2017 and examine arguments for increasing endemicity.

Keywords: melioidosis; bacteria; endemicity; Guadeloupe; French West Indies; France; Caribbean; Burkholderia pseudomallei

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Infectious diseases; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Emerging diseases; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology; Genomics [q-bio.GN]

Bénédicte Melot, Sylvaine Bastian, Eric Valade, Nathalie Dournon, Olivier Gorgé, et al.. Three New Cases of Melioidosis, Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020, 26 (3), pp.617-619. ⟨10.3201/eid2603.190718⟩. ⟨pasteur-02795082⟩