Affiliations 

  • 1 Medical Department, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad, 2023;35(2):331-333.
PMID: 37422833 DOI: 10.55519/JAMC-02-11131

Abstract

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes melioidosis. Melioidosis is a potentially fatal disease that is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and is being increasingly recognized in other regions worldwide. Melioidosis can affect any organ system and present with a wide range of clinical manifestations including pneumonia, bone, skin/soft tissue, or central nervous system infections. In this report, we describe a diabetic farmer who succumbed to persistent B. pseudomallei bacteraemia with multiorgan involvement despite treatment with meropenem and ceftazidime.

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