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(Chest. 1961;40:693-697.)
© 1961 American College of Chest Physicians

Melioidosis

CELAL ERTUG M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 professor of Medicine (Chest Diseases), Medical School, Ankara University, Turkey.

Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by a glanders-like bacillus, Malleomyces pseudomallei. The organism usually produces an acute, generalized septicemic clinical picture with multiple miliary and diffuse abscesses with early death. Very seldom it causes chronic disease, with several sinuses in the soft tissues which are similar to the manifestations of glanders. About 300 cases have been reported to date. Almost all of them were from the Far East.

This paper reports the first case of pulmonary melioidosis in the Western hemisphere.






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