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Jose RA, Alexander VS, Jacob AA, Mathew R. Are we missing the diagnosis of disseminated melioidosis? An unusual presentation of melioidosis with prostatic abscess. 2018; 20 (1):40-42.
Melioidosis, an emerging infectious disease in India is well known for its protean clinical manifestations. Definitive diagnosis can be made by isolation of non-fermentative Gram-negative bacilli from clinical specimens and identification of the isolate at the species level. We report a case of disseminated melioidosis with lymphadenitis and prostatic abscess. Burkholderia pseudomallei was isolated from bone marrow, pus aspirate, blood and urine, and the patient responded well to the treatment.
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