Clinical Definitions of Melioidosis

Prostatic melioidosis rarely reported in China: two cases report and literatures review.

Melioidosis is a fatal, endemic disease caused by Burkholderiapseudomallei which is a gram-negative bacillus. Melioidosis present diversely that ranging from chronic disease to fulminant sepsis, and may affect almost any organ in the body. And in China, melioidosis presenting primarily as prostatic abscesses has rarely been reported. Rapid and accurate diagnostics are needed for melioidosis as ...

Recurrent melioidosis in the Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study: improving therapies mean that relapse cases are now rare.

The Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study has documented 785 melioidosis cases over 23 years. Recurrent melioidosis occurred in 39/679 (5.7%) patients surviving initial infection; 29 patients suffered relapse of the original infection, and 10 presented with a new Burkholderia pseudomallei infection. With improved therapy, relapse has become rare in recent years.

Equine Melioidosis in Iran

Chronic melioidosis in a patient with cystic fibrosis.

Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is endemic in Southeast Asia and northern Australia, where it can be found in soil and surface water. We report a case of chronic pulmonary melioidosis in a patient with cystic fibrosis who had traveled to an area where B. pseudomallei is endemic.

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...