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Burkholderia pseudomallei has been rarely mentioned as a causative organism of thoracic empyema in previous literature. Here, we reported two cases (a 66-year-old male farmer and a 57-year-old male security guard) presenting with fever and pleuritic chest pain. Their chest computed tomography scans revealed pleural effusion which was frank pus confirmed through thoracentesis. The result of pus culture isolated B. pseudomallei suitable to diagnose melioidosis. These patients were treated successfully with appropriate antibiotics without chest tube drainage. Although uncommon, melioidosis could present exclusively as thoracic empyema.

This paper presents the elastic deformation and thermodynamic theory for crystals with HCP structure on the basis of the statistical moment method (SMM) together with numerical results and discussions for metals Mg, Zn, Dy, Er and Gd. Some numerical results are compared with experiments and other calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]