Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature

Melioidosis is a rare potentially fatal infection caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and an emerging pathogen in India. It is a largely under-diagnosed disease and an imitator of tuberculosis, both clinically and radiologicall...

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Autores principales: Boruah, Deb K, Prakash, Arjun, Bora, Reeta, Buragohain, Lemanstar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Chest Radiology Minisymposia
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24604934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.125576
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author Boruah, Deb K
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description Melioidosis is a rare potentially fatal infection caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and an emerging pathogen in India. It is a largely under-diagnosed disease and an imitator of tuberculosis, both clinically and radiologically.
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spelling pubmed-39325722014-03-06 Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature Boruah, Deb K Prakash, Arjun Bora, Reeta Buragohain, Lemanstar Indian J Radiol Imaging Chest Radiology Minisymposia Melioidosis is a rare potentially fatal infection caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and an emerging pathogen in India. It is a largely under-diagnosed disease and an imitator of tuberculosis, both clinically and radiologically. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3932572/ /pubmed/24604934 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.125576 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature
title Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature
title_full Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature
title_short Acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: A case report and review of literature
title_sort acute pulmonary melioidosis in a child: a case report and review of literature
topic Chest Radiology Minisymposia
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24604934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.125576
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