Melioidosis Pneumonia and Blast Injury

Overview

Journal Chest

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 1993 Jun 1

PMID 8404124

Citations 2

Authors

C Y Wang

B H Yap

A E Delilkan

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Abstract

We present the case of a 24-year-old woman with acute septicemic melioidosis resulting from inhaled infective dust during a blast injury. With appropriate antibiotic treatment and supportive therapy in the ICU, the patient made an uneventful recovery.

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