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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Melioidosis of the nervous system: atypical presentation of a rare disease in a 48-year-old man.

Saif Hamdoon, Ian Wilson, Simon Smith, Christian Gericke

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Saif HamdoonDepartment of Medicine, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, Cairns, Queensland, Australia saif.hamdoon@health.qld.gov.au.
Ian WilsonDepartment of Neurology, Queensland Health, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Simon SmithDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Christian GerickeDepartment of Neurology, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Queensland, Australia.
Cairns Hospital · AUPrince Charles Hospital · AUQueensland Health · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 48-year-old man who worked in mining in remote, northern Australia was transferred from a rural hospital 5 days after the onset of headaches, subjective fevers and flaccid paralysis of the left upper limb. Initial investigations demonstrated inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) changes and a longitudinally extensive cervical cord lesion. Given two serial negative blood and CSF cultures, he was treated as inflammatory myelitis with intravenous methylprednisolone. Despite the initial improvement in pain and left arm power, the patient's neurological deficit plateaued and then deteriorated with worsening neck pain, diaphragmatic dysfunction and dysphagia requiring intubation and respiratory support. A third CSF culture isolated

Indexed as

Rare DiseasesBurkholderia pseudomalleiCentral Nervous System InfectionsCerebrospinal FluidCervical VertebraeDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMelioidosisMiddle Agedinfection (neurology)spinal cordtropical medicine (infectious disease)

Identifiers

PMID33148566
PMCPMC7640452
OpenAlexW3094850602

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