Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up

Primary neurological melioidosis is rare with fewer than 50 cases reported world-wide. We report the first documented case of primary neurological melioidosis in Sweden, a 32-year old male who previously lived in Thailand for six years and recently moved to Sweden. He presented with headache, irrita...

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Autores principales: Corell, Alba, Yilmaz, Aylin, Almotairi, Fawaz S, Farahmand, Dan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33527048
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12367
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author Corell, Alba
Yilmaz, Aylin
Almotairi, Fawaz S
Farahmand, Dan
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description Primary neurological melioidosis is rare with fewer than 50 cases reported world-wide. We report the first documented case of primary neurological melioidosis in Sweden, a 32-year old male who previously lived in Thailand for six years and recently moved to Sweden. He presented with headache, irritability and lack of concentration. Investigation with computerized tomography (CT) and subsequent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed epidural fluid that was interpreted as a chronic epidural hematoma. He underwent surgical evacuation of the epidural collection that was found to be a white collection mixed with pus and bacterial culture results were positive for Burkholderia pseudomallei.
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spelling pubmed-78431572021-01-31 Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up Corell, Alba Yilmaz, Aylin Almotairi, Fawaz S Farahmand, Dan Cureus Infectious Disease Primary neurological melioidosis is rare with fewer than 50 cases reported world-wide. We report the first documented case of primary neurological melioidosis in Sweden, a 32-year old male who previously lived in Thailand for six years and recently moved to Sweden. He presented with headache, irritability and lack of concentration. Investigation with computerized tomography (CT) and subsequent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed epidural fluid that was interpreted as a chronic epidural hematoma. He underwent surgical evacuation of the epidural collection that was found to be a white collection mixed with pus and bacterial culture results were positive for Burkholderia pseudomallei. Cureus 2020-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7843157/ /pubmed/33527048 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12367 Text en Copyright © 2020, Corell et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up
title Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up
title_full Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up
title_fullStr Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up
title_full_unstemmed Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up
title_short Intracranial Manifestation of Melioidosis: A Case Report and Long-Term Follow-Up
title_sort intracranial manifestation of melioidosis: a case report and long-term follow-up
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33527048
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12367
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