Table 1.
Published cases of melioidosis reported from different states of India (1991–2018) (see Supplementary material for reference list).
| State | Number of Cases | Age Range | Gender (Male: Female) | Diabetes n (%) |
Intensive Treatment | Eradication Treatment | Mortality n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MER | CAZ | SXT | Others | ||||||
| Karnataka | 306 | 0–84 | 3:1 | 241 (79) | 24 | 294 | 235 | 50 | 39 (13) |
| Tamil Nadu | 146 | 4–65 | 3:1 | 75 (50) | 3 | 82 | 80 | 2 | 37 (28) |
| Telangana | 35 | 30–66 | 2:1 | 27 (77) | 8 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 4 (11) |
| Kerala | 34 | 9–66 | 5:1 | 24 (77) | 3 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 5 (13) |
| Pondicherry | 14 | 0–58 | 3:1 | 3 (21) | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 (14) |
| West Bengal | 11 | 29–71 | 11:0 | 9 (82) | 6 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 (18) |
| Maharashtra | 9 | 10–72 | 7:1 | 5 (50) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 (50) |
| Orissa | 8 | 47–51 | 7:0 | 5 (63) | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 (12.5) |
| Assam | 6 | 0–57 | 2:1 | 3 (50) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 (33) |
| Goa | 5 | 34–53 | 5:0 | 5 (100) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Bihar | 4 | 50–65 | 4:0 | 4 (100) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Jharkhand | 2 | 32–33 | 2:0 | 1 (50) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 (50) |
| Rajasthan | 1 | 49 | 1:0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 56 | 1:0 | 1 (100) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 23 | 1:0 | 1 (100) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (100) |
Abbreviations: MER, meropenem; CAZ, ceftazidime; SXT, cotrimoxazole. Details are not given in many publications so denominators differ in each column.