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Case Reports
. 2009 Nov;15(11):1809-11.
doi: 10.3201/eid1511.090038.

Imported melioidosis, Israel, 2008

Avivit Cahn  1 , Benjamin Koslowsky, Ran Nir-Paz, Violeta Temper, Nurit Hiller, Alla Karlinsky, Itzhak Gur, Carlos Hidalgo-Grass, Samuel N Heyman, Allon E Moses, Colin Block
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Imported melioidosis, Israel, 2008

Avivit Cahn et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Nov.

Abstract

In 2008, melioidosis was diagnosed in an agricultural worker from Thailand in the southern Jordan Valley in Israel. He had newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, fever, multiple abscesses, and osteomyelitis. Burkholderia pseudomallei was isolated from urine and blood. Four of 10 laboratory staff members exposed to the organism received chemoprophylaxis, 3 of whom had adverse events.

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Computed tomography images showing multiple abscesses in the right lung (A), spleen and upper pole of the right kidney (B), prostate gland (C), and plantar aspect of the right foot (D) (arrows) of the patient.
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