1. Cutaneous melioidosis with unusual histological features.
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Yeo, B., Lee, J., Alagappan, U., and Pan, J. Y.
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MELIOIDOSIS ,BURKHOLDERIA pseudomallei ,BURKHOLDERIA infections ,GLANDERS ,BURKHOLDERIA - Abstract
Melioidosis is caused by the saprophytic gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, and has varied presentations, with cutaneous manifestations occurring in about 13% of cases. The usual histopathological features of melioidosis are suppurative to chronic granulomatous inflammation. Recommended treatment of melioidosis is sequential use of intravenous followed by oral antibiotics for a few months, although oral antibiotics alone can be used in primary cutaneous melioidosis. We report a case of cutaneous melioidosis in a healthy young man, with the unusual histopathological feature of lymphoplasmacytic inflammation, and failing an initial trial of oral antibiotics alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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