Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 2 Department of Orthopaedia, Hjørring Hospital, Hjørring, Denmark
  • 3 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
BMJ Case Rep, 2015 Jan 16;2015.
PMID: 25596295 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-207340

Abstract

A healthy Danish man presented with infected prepatellar bursitis 8 months after being involved in a car accident in Malaysia resulting in exposure of a laceration of his knee to stagnant water. Tissue samples grew Burkholderia pseudomallei and diagnostic work up revealed no secondary foci. The patient was successfully treated with surgical debridement and 3 months of oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. At 6 months follow-up the patient was without relapse.

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