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Melioidosis is an infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is more prevalent in the tropics and leads to significant morbidity and mortality. It characteristically produces widespread caseous lesions and abscesses, and can present with varied clinical manifestations.
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BACKGROUND
Melioidosis is a rare condition, endemic to northern Australia and south-east Asia, caused by an infection from the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei. The largest epidemiological review to date describes 540 cases of melioidosis seen at Darwin Hospital, in northern Australia, over
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Central nervous system (CNS) melioidosis is rare. Clinical presentations depend on the region of endemicity. Despite treatment, neurologic disease has relatively high mortality rates. Less than 80 cases of CNS involvement have been reported.Literature
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Melioidosis is an infection caused by Gram-negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. This is a rare disease in India, more so in North India. We present two cases of melioidosis with unusual sites of infection. The first patient was a young diabetic male presenting to us with history of
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Melioidosis is an emerging disease in India. Cases have also been reported from South East Asia, Australia and Japan. Major risk factors for melioidosis are diabetes mellitus, preexisting renal disease and thalassemia. Exposure to contaminated soil and water are also significant occupational hazards
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Melioidosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in northern Australia and Southeast Asia. Diagnosis is best made by isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei from clinical specimens. A variety of clinical presentations are described, including neurologic disease. The aim of this study was
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Central nervous system (CNS) melioidosis is rare. However, delayed diagnosis and treatment could lead to fatality. To identify knowledge of CNS melioidosis, we systematically review case reports and case series.We searched through PubMed, Web of Science and
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A 34-year-old woman presented two weeks after a visit to Burma with fever peaking up to 39 degrees C, chills, non-productive cough, headache, muscle pain, shortness of breath and a painful swelling on the left lower leg. She was treated immediately with intravenous amoxycillin-clavulanic acid. The
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BACKGROUND
Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Infection usually follows percutaneous inoculation or inhalation or ingestion of the causative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is present in soil and surface water in endemic regions. Japanese encephalitis (JE)
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Melioidosis which is infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei, is an important cause of sepsis in India, southeast Asia and northern Australia. Mortality is high and treatment is problematic. Neurological melioidosis is unusual but meningoencephalitis, encephalomyelitis and brain microabscess can
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Neurological melioidosis, an extremely rare condition, is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. If treatment is suboptimal or delayed, this infection can produce diverse clinical symptoms and result in death.
A healthy 65-year-old female who had been treated with
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Two cases of cerebral abscesses caused by Pseudomonas pseudomallei are reported. The first case, a 51-year-old women had a sudden onset of progressive right hemiparesis and right facial palsy and died within 7 days. Postmortem examination disclosed brain abscess in association with disseminated
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Melioidosis, which is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, is predominately a disease of tropical climates and is especially widespread in south-east Asia and northern Australia. Melioidosis affecting the central nervous system has a low incidence but a high mortality. We present seven cases of
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Acute pyrexia of unknown origin (Acute PUO) was reported to affect approximately 200,000-400,000 patients each year reported by the national Annual Epidemiological Surveillance Report. The patients usually present with fever of less than two-week duration and non-specific symptoms such as
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OBJECTIVE
To review a number of the important unusual infections in Australia that can lead to critical illness.
METHODS
Articles, reports and published reviews on Japanese encephalitis, murine typhus, Australian spotted fever, Australian bat lyssavirus, leptospirosis, Capnocytophaga canimorsus,
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