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CASE REPORT
Cutaneous melioidosis in a healthy Danish man after travelling to South-East Asia
  1. Jacob Bodilsen1,
  2. Henrik Langgaard2,
  3. Hans Linde Nielsen3
  1. 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
  2. 2Department of Orthopaedia, Hjørring Hospital, Hjørring, Denmark
  3. 3Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jacob Bodilsen, jacob.bodilsen{at}rn.dk

Summary

A healthy Danish man presented with infected prepatellar bursitis 8 months after being involved in a car accident in Malaysia resulting in exposure of a laceration of his knee to stagnant water. Tissue samples grew Burkholderia pseudomallei and diagnostic work up revealed no secondary foci. The patient was successfully treated with surgical debridement and 3 months of oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. At 6 months follow-up the patient was without relapse.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2014-207340

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