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Rheumatology 1999; 38: 1029-1031
© 1999 British Society for Rheumatology

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Melioidosis presenting as septic arthritis in Bengali men in East London

S. N. Hoque, M. Minassian, S. Clipstone, S. J. Lloyd-Owen, E. Sheridan and M. P. A. Lessing

Department of Microbiology, Royal London Hospital, 37 Ashford Street, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK

SIR, Melioidosis can be a fatal disease [1] and is endemic in northeastern Thailand [2] and northern Australia. Melioidosis is not endemic in the Indian subcontinent, but it has been described in travellers from Bangladesh [3, 4]. It is caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is found in moist soil and water in the tropics [5], and can enter the human host by inoculation, and perhaps by ingestion and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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