Description of two fatal cases of melioidosis in Mexican children with acute pneumonia: case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. In Mexico, the disease is rarely diagnosed in humans and there is no evidence of simultaneous environmental isolation of the pathogen. Here, we describe clinical profiles of fatal cases of melioidosis in two children, in a region without history of that disease.

Case presentation

About 48 h before onset of symptoms, patients swam in a natural body of water, and thereafter they rapidly developed fatal septicemic illness. Upon necropsy, samples from liver, spleen, lung, cerebrospinal fluid, and bronchial aspirate tissues contained Burkholderia pseudomallei. Environmental samples collected from the locations where the children swam also contained B. pseudomallei. All the clinical and environmen

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Hernandez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7903701 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature