Controlled trials of amphotericin B lipid complex and other lipid-associated formulations.

are indicated to determine the true incidence of melioidosis in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Finally, I must correct some factual inaccuracies. First, the patient originally described by Whitmore and Krishnaswami [7] was 40 years old, not 10 years old as stated by Dorman et al. [1]. Second, the longest incubation period for melioidosis has recently been increased to 29 years [8]. Last, the case reported by Lee et al. [2] is not, as they state, the first reported case of mycotic aneurysm caused by B. pseudomallei; an earlier case was reported in 1996 [9].