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Cutaneous melioidosis
Author(s) -
Tran D.,
Tan H. H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2230.2002.01021.x
Subject(s) - melioidosis , medicine , dermatology , pathology
Summary Melioidosis is a rare tropical disease caused by infection with the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei . It occurs predominantly in south‐east Asia, northern and central Australia and central and south America. Patients often present to the internal medicine physicians with a severe, potentially fatal sepsis. We report three patients who presented to our dermatology department with cutaneous melioidosis.