1C42
category
Melioidosis
Definition
A disease caused by the saprophytic environmental gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei which is found in soil or water in humid tropical regions of the world, especially South-East Asia and northern Australia. It has protean manifestations ranging from fulminant septicaemia with fatal outcome to chronic low grade infection.
Also indexed as
Acute or fulminant melioidosisAcute parotiditis due to melioidosisAcute pulmonary melioidosisChronic pulmonary melioidosisCutaneous and subcutaneous melioidosisInfection due to Burkholderia pseudomallei NOSInfection due to Pseudomonas pseudomallei NOSMelioidosisMelioidosis pneumoniaSeptic shock due to fulminant melioidosisSkin abscess due to MelioidosisStanton diseaseSubacute or chronic melioidosisSubacute pulmonary melioidosisWhitmore diseaseacute melioidosischronic melioidosisfulminating melioidosisinfection due to Whitmore bacillusinfection due to burkholderia pseudomalleiinfection due to malleomyces pseudomalleiinfection due to pseudomonas pseudomalleipseudoglanderssubacute melioidosis