Unusual presentation of melioidosis in a returning traveler

Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Australia and cases outside those regions are often travel related. We present a case of melioidosis in a man, with no known risk factors who had an unusual presentation with an infected abdominal aortic aneurysm by Burkholderia pseudomallei in Saudi Arab...

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Autores principales: Barry, Mazin, Dada, Hebah, Barry, Mohammad, Almohaya, Abdulellah, Aldrees, Abdulwahab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00809
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Aldrees, Abdulwahab
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description Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Australia and cases outside those regions are often travel related. We present a case of melioidosis in a man, with no known risk factors who had an unusual presentation with an infected abdominal aortic aneurysm by Burkholderia pseudomallei in Saudi Arabia, a country with no previous reported cases of this infection. It occurred after traveling to Thailand and he was treated successfully with medical therapy and surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-72403282020-05-26 Unusual presentation of melioidosis in a returning traveler Barry, Mazin Dada, Hebah Barry, Mohammad Almohaya, Abdulellah Aldrees, Abdulwahab IDCases Article Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Australia and cases outside those regions are often travel related. We present a case of melioidosis in a man, with no known risk factors who had an unusual presentation with an infected abdominal aortic aneurysm by Burkholderia pseudomallei in Saudi Arabia, a country with no previous reported cases of this infection. It occurred after traveling to Thailand and he was treated successfully with medical therapy and surgical intervention. Elsevier 2020-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7240328/ /pubmed/32461901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00809 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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