Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis

Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. Sporadic cases have been reported from many parts of the world where it has an epidemic potential with high-rate fatality cases. In non-endemic areas, melioidosis may be misdiagnosed with common diseases and this may prove fatal. Spora...

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Autores principales: Kunnathuparambil, Sojan George, Sathar, Shanid Abdul, Tank, Devang Chandrakanth, Sreesh, Srijaya, Mukunda, Madhav, Narayanan, Premaletha, Vinayakumar, Kattoor Ramakrishnan
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Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714690
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author Kunnathuparambil, Sojan George
Sathar, Shanid Abdul
Tank, Devang Chandrakanth
Sreesh, Srijaya
Mukunda, Madhav
Narayanan, Premaletha
Vinayakumar, Kattoor Ramakrishnan
author_facet Kunnathuparambil, Sojan George
Sathar, Shanid Abdul
Tank, Devang Chandrakanth
Sreesh, Srijaya
Mukunda, Madhav
Narayanan, Premaletha
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description Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. Sporadic cases have been reported from many parts of the world where it has an epidemic potential with high-rate fatality cases. In non-endemic areas, melioidosis may be misdiagnosed with common diseases and this may prove fatal. Sporadic cases of melioidosis are mistaken for tuberculosis in India. We report a case of splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis who was earlier misdiagnosed as tuberculosis and underwent anti-tuberculosis therapy. Following treatment of melioidosis his symptoms subsided. This case is reported because of the rarity of the disease and to highlight the importance of looking for melioidosis in patients with splenic abscess even in non-endemic areas.
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spelling pubmed-39595142014-04-07 Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis Kunnathuparambil, Sojan George Sathar, Shanid Abdul Tank, Devang Chandrakanth Sreesh, Srijaya Mukunda, Madhav Narayanan, Premaletha Vinayakumar, Kattoor Ramakrishnan Ann Gastroenterol Case Report Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. Sporadic cases have been reported from many parts of the world where it has an epidemic potential with high-rate fatality cases. In non-endemic areas, melioidosis may be misdiagnosed with common diseases and this may prove fatal. Sporadic cases of melioidosis are mistaken for tuberculosis in India. We report a case of splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis who was earlier misdiagnosed as tuberculosis and underwent anti-tuberculosis therapy. Following treatment of melioidosis his symptoms subsided. This case is reported because of the rarity of the disease and to highlight the importance of looking for melioidosis in patients with splenic abscess even in non-endemic areas. Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3959514/ /pubmed/24714690 Text en Copyright: © Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kunnathuparambil, Sojan George
Sathar, Shanid Abdul
Tank, Devang Chandrakanth
Sreesh, Srijaya
Mukunda, Madhav
Narayanan, Premaletha
Vinayakumar, Kattoor Ramakrishnan
Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
title Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
title_full Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
title_fullStr Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
title_short Splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
title_sort splenic abscess due to chronic melioidosis in a patient previously misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714690
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