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Acute Septicemic Melioidosis Presenting with Acute Cholangitis

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Melioidosis is a disease prevalent in the tropics, especially in Southeast Asia. The most common clinical presentations are bacteremic pneumonia and abscess formation in various organs. Although a wide variety of disease presentations are reported for melioidosis, acute cholangitis has not been previously reported. Herein, we report a 54-year-old woman who had fever, right upper abdominal pain and jaundice 1 week after a flood caused by a typhoon in southern Taiwan. Acute cholangitis and pneumonia with septic shock caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei were subsequently diagnosed.

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Correspondence to H.-H. Lin.

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Lai, CH., Huang, CK., Chin, C. et al. Acute Septicemic Melioidosis Presenting with Acute Cholangitis. Infection 35, 461–464 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-006-6624-0

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