The overall takeaway from the paper is that bacterial antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is not just a problem for high-income countries, or countries with really high antibiotic consumption.
9). We report trends in management and outcomes of melioidosis over 10 years at a nongovernmental pediatric hospital in northern Cambodia.
The Study
This study was approved by the hospital institutional review board (AHC IRB 979-14; 1044-15) and the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee (OxTREC 550-14). Data on all culture-confirmed case-patients who had
B. pseudomallei infection during January 1, 2009–December 31, 2018, were collected retrospectively (2009–2013) and prospectively as part of an invasive bacterial infection surveillance study. Retrospective case-patients (the first 173 case-patients) have previously been described and are included to illustrate trends over the decade (
Figure 1
Figure 1. Prevalence of undernutrition for 262 children 10 years of age who had culture-confirmed melioidosis, northern Cambodia, 2009–2018. Linear trend lines indicate nonunderweight children (solid line, open circles: R 0.76; p .