A FATAL CASE OF PERSISTENT BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI BACTERAEMIA WITH SEVERE PNEUMONIA AND SPLENIC ABSCESS

Authors

  • Chee Yik Chang Medical Department, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Selangor-Malaysia
  • Hui Ling Lee Medical Department, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Selangor-Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55519/JAMC-02-11131

Keywords:

Melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, necrotizing pneumonia, splenic abscesses

Abstract

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes melioidosis. Melioidosis is a potentially fatal disease that is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, and is being increasingly recognized in other regions worldwide. Melioidosis can affect any organ system and present with a wide range of clinical manifestations including pneumonia, bone, skin/soft tissue, or central nervous system infections. In this report, we describe a diabetic farmer who succumbed to persistent B. pseudomallei bacteraemia with multiorgan involvement despite treatment with meropenem and ceftazidime.

Author Biography

Hui Ling Lee, Medical Department, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Selangor-Malaysia

Medical Department, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Selangor-Malaysia

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Additional Files

Published

2023-04-17

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023): JOURNL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE ABBOTTABAD

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CASE REPORT

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