KNV Adithya¹* and KM Vignesh²

¹Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Poonamallee, Chennai, India
²Senior Resident, Department of General Medicine, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Poonamallee, Chennai, India

*Corresponding Author: KNV Adithya, Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Poonamallee, Chennai, India.

Received: October 11, 2024; Published: November 19, 2024

Abstract

Melioidosis is a infection caused by the facultative intracellular Gram negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. This is a widely distributed environmental saprophyte in soil and fresh surface water in endemic regions of Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and few cases have been reported sporadically from India [1,3]. Melioidosis has also been described outside the classic endemic regions. Many such cases are acquired by visitors to endemic areas. Here, is one such case from the Konkan Coastal belt of Goa, a state from India.

 Keywords: Melioidosis; Liver Abscess; Endemic

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Citation

Citation: KNV Adithya and KM Vignesh. “A Sporadic Case of Burkholderia pseudomallei in the Community”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 8.12 (2024): 91-93.

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Copyright: © 2024 KNV Adithya and KM Vignesh. 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.