TY - JOUR AU - Melot, Bénédicte AU - Bastian, Sylvaine AU - Dournon, Nathalie AU - Valade, Eric AU - Gorgé, Olivier AU - Le Fleche, Anne AU - Idier, Charlotte AU - Vernier, Mireille AU - Fernandes, Elisabeth AU - Hoen, Bruno AU - Breurec, Sébastien AU - Carles, Michel T1 - Three New Cases of Melioidosis, Guadeloupe, French West Indies T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 3 SP - 617 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - melioidosis KW - Burkholderia pseudomallei KW - endemicity KW - Caribbean KW - Guadeloupe KW - French West Indies KW - bacteria KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid2603.190718 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/3/19-0718_article ER - End of Reference