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Genomic transcriptional profiling identifies a candidate blood biomarker signature for the diagnosis of septicemic melioidosis
10 Nov 2009
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BACKGROUND: Melioidosis is a severe infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacillus classified by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as a category B priority agent. Septicemia is the most common presentation of the disease with a 40% mortality rate even with appropriate treatments. Better diagnostic tests are therefore needed to improve therapeutic...
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