Pericardial Effusion - Melioidosis or Tuberculosis

Autor:	Smitha Bhat, Jayaprakash Alva, Sourab Hiremath, Mohammad Ashraf, Shishir Duble
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Melioidosis Tuberculosis biology business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Dermatology Pericardial effusion Mycobacterium tuberculosis Northern australia medicine South east asia business
Zdroj:	Journal of Medicine. 13:230-232
ISSN:	2075-5384 1997-9797
DOI:	10.3329/jom.v13i2.9368
Popis:	Melioidosis which is endemic in South East Asia and Northern Australia is now being reported from the Indian subcontinents as well. Meliodosis rarely presents as pericardial effusion. We report a case of B. pseudomallei causing pericardial effusion from India, where the most common infective cause of pericardial effusion is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The chronic presentation of melioidosis is not unlike tuberculosis, and the clinician must have a high index of suspicion to diagnose meliodosis, especially in geographical areas where both tuberculosis and melioidosis are prevalent.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jom.v13i2.9368 J Medicine 2012; 13 : 230-232
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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