A Case of Disseminated Melioidosis in a Migrant Worker from Thailand
- Authors
- Lee, Hye-Min; Choi, Seong Ho; Chung, Jin-Won; Ahn, Jihyun; Cho, Ah Ra; Lee, Mi Kyung; Chang, Kyu Jin
- Issue Date
- Apr-2009
- Publisher
- KOREAN SOC LABORATORY MEDICINE
- Keywords
- Melioidosis; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Migrant Worker
- Citation
- KOREAN JOURNAL OF LABORATORY MEDICINE, v.29, no.2, pp 140 - 144
- Pages
- 5
- Journal Title
- KOREAN JOURNAL OF LABORATORY MEDICINE
- Volume
- 29
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 140
- End Page
- 144
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/23236
- DOI
- 10.3343/kjlm.2009.29.2.140
- ISSN
- 1598-6535
2234-3814
- Abstract
- With globalization, foreign patients are frequently encountered at the clinical practice in Korea. As the number of migrant workers from Southeast Asia has been notably rising since the late 1990's, unfamiliar tropical infectious diseases that they bring out, may give great challenges to the routine clinical practice in Korea, Melioidosis is a community-acquired infection caused by a gram-negative bacillus, Burkholderia pseudomallei. It has been endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, where B. pseudomallei is a soil saprophyte and invades the host through inoculation or inhalation. It frequently presents as an acute septicemia with a high mortality rate of 40%, mainly in patients with chronic underlying diseases, such as diabetes mellitus. Recently, we encountered a case of fatal disseminated melioidosis in a migrant worker from Thailand, We suggest an importance of melioidosis as a cause of community-acquired sepsis in migrant workers from Southeast Asia. (Korean J Lab Med 2009;29:1404)
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