Research Paper

Epidemiological and Clinical profiles of Melioidosis in tertiary care centre in Northern Sri Lanka.

J Pradeepan, S Pirasath, T Kumanan

  Abstract :

Melioidosis is sporadically reported from various parts of Sri Lanka. It is major recent endemic in Northern Sri Lanla. It is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative, oxidase positive bacillus. The first case of melioidosis was reported in a European tea broker in 1927 in Sri Lanka. We present a case series of seven patients of culture or serologically proven melioidosis from Northern Sri Lanka, highlighting the different clinical manifestations of the disease .Melioidosis had a varied presentation involving multiple abscesses in the skin, liver, spleen, mediastinum and septic arthritis. It presented as either an acute fulminant septicaemia with a high mortality to a chronic localized infection. Most cases had predisposing risk factors such as diabetes and occupational risk.

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL PROFILES OF MELIOIDOSIS IN TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN NORTHERN SRI LANKA., J Pradeepan, S Pirasath, T Kumanan, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY : Volume-3 | Issue-3 | July-2019

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