Misdiagnosing Melioidosis

Misdiagnosing Melioidosis

cattle (2,8). Taken together, the prevalence of EHEC serotype O145:H– in cats, humans, and cattle might indicate that the girl was probably more likely the infection source for the cat than vice versa. Third, a cycle of mutual infection and reinfection between the girl and her pet cat cannot be ruled out. Although the excretion rate for EHEC changes over time and EHEC can therefore remain undet...

Misdiagnosing sleep disorders

There is a compelling argument for viewing sleep and its disorders as a central theme in psychiatry and for clinicians to be familiar with sleep disorder medicine whatever the age of their patients. Sad to say, however, psychiatry (and, for that matter, clinical psychology) generally shares in the neglect of this field in medical and other teaching and training areas. There are several main poi...

Misdiagnosing Bronchiectasis and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

This report presents a 25 year old female with a history of exertional dyspnea since the age of three. She was wrongly diagnosed and managed as bronchiectasis although she had had no productive cough or recurrent infection. At the age of 23, because of her dyspnea she was referred to a pneumologist for the first time. High resolution computed tomography and open lung biopsy was performed at tha...

Risk factors for melioidosis and bacteremic melioidosis.

A case-control study was conducted in four hospitals in northeastern Thailand to identify risk factors for melioidosis and bacteremic melioidosis. Cases were patients with culture-proven melioidosis, and there were two types of controls (those with infections, i.e., with community-acquired septicemia caused by other bacteria, and those without infection, i.e., randomly selected patients admitte...

Equine Melioidosis in Iran