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Case Reports
. 2014 Feb;6(2):E1-4.
doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.01.20.

Septicemic melioidosis: a case report and literature review

Jin-Lan Jin  1 , Ying-Xia Ning  1
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Case Reports

Septicemic melioidosis: a case report and literature review

Jin-Lan Jin et al. J Thorac Dis. 2014 Feb.

Abstract

This report was about a 22-year-old male patient who died from acute and severe septicemic melioidosis. He was initially misdiagnosed as having pneumonia in a local hospital in Hainan but transferred to Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital after ineffective treatment and detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei in his blood sample. Unfortunately, right diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of melioidosis had been delayed so that his condition deteriorated rapidly out of control. The victim's death highlights the importance of early diagnosis and effective antibiotic treatment of septicemic melioidosis in areas where this disease is prevalent.

Keywords: Burkholderia pseudomallei; Septicemic melioidosis; carbapenem; ceftazidime.

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Figure 1
A chest radiograph showed exudation, proliferation and cords in both of the upper lungs but more conspicuous signs in the right upper lung, indicating right upper lung fiber exudative TB and left upper pulmonary fibrous TB. Abbreviation: TB, tuberculosis.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Multiple pus points were manifest on the skin of the shoulder and chest.
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