F1000Research Article Status Summary Referee Responses , Kasturba Medical Kavitha Saravu College India , Necker Sick Blandine Rammaert Children's Hospital France , University of Liverpool Nicholas Feasey UK Latest Comments No Comments Yet 3 2 1 CASE REPORT Two fatal cases of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/373] Cindy S. Chu , Stuart Winearls , Clare Ling , Miriam Beer Torchinsky , Aung Phae 1,2 1 1,2 3 Phyo , Warat Haohankunnathum , Paul Turner , Vanaporn Wuthiekanun , François 1 1 2,4 5 Nosten 1,2 Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, 1 63110, Thailand Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX37 7FZ, UK 2 Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V5Z 1M9, Canada 3 Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia 4 Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand 5 Abstract Melioidosis is endemic in areas of Southeast Asia, however, there are no published reports from the Thai-Myanmar border. We report the first two documented cases of fatal melioidosis in this region. This is of great public health importance and highlights the need to both increase clinical awareness of melioidosis on the Thai-Myanmar border, and to assess the true burden of disease in the area through improved case detection and Burkholderia prevalence studies. pseudomallei Referees v1 published 06 Jan 2014 v2 published 31 Mar 2014 1 2 3 report 1 report 1 report report 06 Jan 2014, :4 (doi: ) First published: 3 10.12688/f1000research.3-4.v1 31 Mar 2014, :4 (doi: ) Latest published: 3 10.12688/f1000research.3-4.v2 v2 Page 1 of 10 F1000Research 2014, 3:4 Last updated: 02 APR 2014