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Acute Septicemic Melioidosis Presenting with Acute Cholangitis.
- Source :
- Infection; Dec2007, Vol. 35 Issue 6, p461-464, 4p, 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Melioidosis is a disease prevalent in the tropics, especially in Southeast Asia. The most common clinical presentations are bacteremic pneumonia and abscess formation in various organs. Although a wide variety of disease presentations are reported for melioidosis, acute cholangitis has not been previously reported. Herein, we report a 54-year-old woman who had fever, right upper abdominal pain and jaundice 1 week after a flood caused by a typhoon in southern Taiwan. Acute cholangitis and pneumonia with septic shock caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei were subsequently diagnosed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03008126
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Infection
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27960733
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-006-6624-0