ArticleBMC infectious diseases2012
A traveller presenting with severe melioidosis complicated by a pericardial effusion: a case report.
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- Travel-Associated Melioidosis in Non-Endemic Regions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Atypical Presentations in Melioidosis: A Case-Based Review from Endemic Regions.Infectious disease reports · 2026Review
- A rare case: first description of a patient with melioidosis presenting with pericardial effusion in Germany.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2021Article
- Melioidosis and the Heart: A Systematic Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Review
- A review of melioidosis cases imported into Europe.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019Review
- Disseminated melioidosis with native valve endocarditis: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2019Article
- Melioidosis: an unusual cause of infective endocarditis: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2018Article
- Melioidosis with a Pericardial Effusion, which Relapsed as a Chest Wall Abscess: A Rare Presentation.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2013Article
- A case report of melioidosis in a diabetic patient in a union territory.The Australasian medical journal · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundBurkholderia pseudomallei, the etiologic agent of melioidosis, is endemic to tropic regions, mainly in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Melioidosis occurs only sporadically in travellers returning from disease-endemic areas. Severe clinical disease is seen mostly in patients with alteration of immune status. In particular, pericardial effusion occurs in 1-3% of patients with melioidosis, confined to endemic regions. To our best knowledge, this is the first reported case of melioidosis in a traveller complicated by a hemodynamically significant pericardial effusion without predisposing disease. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old Caucasian man developed pneumonia, with bilateral pleural effusions and complicated by a hemodynamically significant pericardial effusion, soon after his return from Thailand to Switzerland. Cultures from different specimens including blood cultures turned out negative. Diagnosis was only accomplished by isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei from the pericardial aspirate, thus finally enabling the adequate antibiotic treatment.
conclusionsMelioidosis is a great mimicker and physicians in non-endemic countries should be aware of its varied manifestations. In particular, melioidosis should be considered in differential diagnosis of pericardial effusion in travellers , even without risk factors predisposing to severe disease.
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