Imaging and clinical manifestations of hematogenous dissemination in melioidosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although there is a high incidence of hematogenous infections in melioidosis, a tropical infectious disease, there are few systematic analyses of hematogenous melioidosis in imaging articles. A comprehensive clinical and imaging evaluation of hematogenous melioidosis be conducted in order to achieve early diagnosis of the disease.

Materials and methods

We conducted an analysis of 111 cases of melioidosis diagnosed by bacteriological culture between August 2001 and September 2022. The analysis focused on observing the main manifestations of chest imaging and clinical data, including nodules, cavities, consolidation, ground glass opacity(GGO), pleural effusion, centrilobular nodules, and temperature, leucocyte count, diabetes, etc. Our study involved univariate and

SUBMITTER: Yu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11529265 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature