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Cutaneous Melioidosis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Melioidosis is an emerging infection in India. It usually presents as pneumonia. Melioidosis presenting as cutaneous lesions is uncommon. We present a case of cutaneous melioidosis from Southern India.
Basavaprabhu Achappa, Deepak Madi, K. Vidyalakshmi   +2 more
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Melioidosis

Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, 1994
Melioidosis, which is infection with the gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, is an important cause of sepsis in east Asia and northern Australia. In northeastern Thailand, melioidosis accounts for 20% of all community-acquired septicaemias, and causes death in 40% of treated patients.
White, Nicholas
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An Extraordinary Wet Season and a Surge of Melioidosis: A Retrospective Case Series From a Tropical Emergency Department. [PDF]

Emerg Med Australas
ABSTRACT Objective Townsville, North Queensland, experienced record rainfall in the 2024–2025 wet season with an associated surge in the number of patients with melioidosis. A large proportion presented to the Townsville University Hospital (TUH) emergency department (ED), presenting an opportunity to assess the surge from an ED perspective.
Banks C, McConnell A, Heather CS, Stephen M, Schroeder KJ, Tredinnick I, Wong S, Gangathimmaiah V.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Melioidosis [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2018
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative environmental bacterium and the aetiological agent of melioidosis, a life-threatening infection that is estimated to account for ∼89,000 deaths per year worldwide. Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for melioidosis, and the global diabetes pandemic could increase the number of fatalities caused by ...
Wiersinga, W. Joost, Virk, Harjeet S., Torres, Alfredo G., Currie, Bart J., Peacock, Sharon J., Dance, David A. B., Limmathurotsakul, Direk   +6 more
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Melioidosis in companion animals: Analysis of 45 Australian cases (24 dogs; 21 cats) from 1997 to 2025 and a brief review of the animal and human literature. [PDF]

Aust Vet J
Objective To report 45 cases of melioidosis in dogs and cats from northern Australia and analyse trends in epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathogenesis and response to treatment over a 27‐year period. Design Retrospective and prospective analysis of clinical records.
Lee K, Shilton C, Benedict S, Krockenberger M, Mayo M, Currie BJ, Malik R.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Melioidosis, Northeastern Brazil [PDF]

, 2005
Melioidosis is a fatal bacterial infection found in many parts of the tropical belt, particularly in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Sporadic cases of the disease have been reported previously in Central and South America.
Howard, K., Miralles, I.S., Sampson, I., O'Reilly, L., Diana Carmen Almeida de Oliveira, Timothy J.J. Inglis, Vilar, D.C.F.L., de Oliveira, D.C.A., Dina Cortez Feitosa Lima Vilar, Rolim, D.B., Ian Sampson, Inglis, T.J.J., Harnett, G., Lyn O'Reilly, Kay Howard, Dionne Bezerra Rolim, Iracema Sampaio Miralles, Sousa, A.Q., Gerry Harnett, Anastacio Queiroz Sousa   +19 more
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Glyburide reduces bacterial dissemination in a mouse model of melioidosis [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis) is an important cause of community-acquired Gram-negative sepsis in Northeast Thailand, where it is associated with a ,40% mortality rate despite antimicrobial chemotherapy. We showed in a
Krause, Kathrin, Ivo Steinmetz (392595), Krause Kathrin, Hanna K de Jong, de Jong, Hanna K., Wiersinga W. Joost, van der Poll Tom, Kathrin Krause (473325), de Jong Hanna K., Koh, Gavin C. K. W., Bast Antje, Katrin Breitbach (473324), Koh Gavin C. K. W., Kager, Liesbeth M., Hanna K. de Jong (304424), W. Joost Wiersinga (33895), Peacock, Sharon J., Hoogendijk, Arjan J., Gavin C K W Koh, Liesbeth M Kager, Wiersinga, W. Joost, Kager, Liesbeth M, Tom van der Poll, Koh, Gavin C K W, W Joost Wiersinga, Antje Bast, Peacock, Sharon J, Gavin C. K. W. Koh (185751), Sharon J. Peacock (35782), Tassili A. Weehuizen (473323), Steinmetz Ivo, Kager Liesbeth M., Sharon J Peacock, Jong, Hanna K. de, Liesbeth M. Kager (367131), Tom van der Poll (33907), Bast, Antje, de Jong, Hanna K, Hoogendijk, Arjan J, Steinmetz, Ivo, Breitbach, Katrin, Breitbach Katrin, Weehuizen Tassili A., Kathrin Krause, Weehuizen, Tassili A., Arjan J. Hoogendijk (473326), Antje Bast (473327), Hoogendijk Arjan J., Wiersinga, W Joost, Peacock Sharon J., Tassili A Weehuizen, van der Poll, Tom, Katrin Breitbach, Arjan J Hoogendijk, Weehuizen, Tassili A, Ivo Steinmetz   +55 more
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Prevention of melioidosis

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Abstract Melioidosis is a complex tropical disease linked with many complications. It is increasingly diagnosed in India. The clinical mimicry of this disease with several other common causes of pneumonia has kept the clinicians in ignorance. Usually, the diagnosis and appropriate management get delayed.
Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra, Baijayantimala Mishra   +1 more
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Defining the true sensitivity of culture for the diagnosis of melioidosis using Bayesian latent class models. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Culture remains the diagnostic gold standard for many bacterial infections, and the method against which other tests are often evaluated.
Lisa J White, Jamsen Kris, Julie A. Simpson, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Sharon J. Peacock, Chantratita, Narisara, Lisa J. White, White, Lisa, Limmathurotsakul Direk, Simpson Julie A., Chantratita, N, Sue J. Lee, Simpson, Julie A, Day, Nicholas PJ, Arayawichanont, A, Peacock, SJ, Wuthiekanun, V, Nicholas P. J. Day, Claudio Verzilli, Arayawichanont Arkhom, Narisara Chantratita, Allen Cheng, Kris Jamsen, Lee, Sue J, Julie A Simpson, Cheng Allen, Peacock, Sharon J, White, LJ, Arkhom Arayawichanont, Wuthiekanun Vanaporn, Sharon J Peacock, Lee, Sue, Cheng, Allen, Verzilli, C, Jamsen, Kris, Day Nicholas P. J., Jamsen, K, White Lisa J., Lee Sue J., Day, NP, Day, NPJ, Nicholas P J Day, Arayawichanont, Arkhom, Limmathurotsakul, Direk, Peacock, Sharon, Limmathurotsakul, D, Simpson, JA, Lee, SJ, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Simpson, Julie, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Verzilli Claudio, Peacock Sharon J., Verzilli, Claudio, Day, Nicholas, Sue J Lee, Cheng, A, White, Lisa J, Chantratita Narisara   +58 more
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T Cell Immunity to the Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase of Burkholderia pseudomallei: A Correlate of Disease Outcome in Acute Melioidosis. [PDF]

, 2015
There is an urgent need for a better understanding of adaptive immunity to Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis that is frequently associated with sepsis or death in patients in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Sumonwiriya, M, Makinde, Julia, Reynolds, Catherine, Altmann, D, Quigley, K, Rinchai, Darawan, Overbeek, S, Boyton, R, Yos, Pagnarith, Jenjaroen, Kemajittra, Maillere, Bernard, Manji, J, Yos, P, Reynolds, C, Musson, Julie, Overbeek, Saskia, Manji, Jiten, Spink, N, Bancroft, Gregory, Musson, J, Dunachie, S, Quigley, Kathryn, Bancroft, G, Goudet, Amélie, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Wuthiekanun, V, Altmann, Daniel, Robinson, John, Lertmemongkolchai, Ganjana, Makinde, J, Rinchai, D, Robinson, J, Lertmemongkolchai, G, Holden, Matthew, Maillere, B, Dunachie, Susanna, Goudet, A, Holden, M, Jenjaroen, K, Spink, Natasha, Boyton, Rosemary, Sumonwiriya, Manutsanun   +41 more
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