Unusual presentation of melioidosis in a returning traveler
Mazin Barry,
Hebah Dada,
Mohammad Barry,
Abdulellah Almohaya,
Abdulwahab Aldrees
Affiliations
Mazin Barry
Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Corresponding author at: Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, P.O Box 2925, Riyadh, 11461, Saudi Arabia.
Hebah Dada
Department of Antimicrobial Resistance, Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Barry
Department of Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abdulellah Almohaya
Infectious Diseases Unit, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abdulwahab Aldrees
Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Australia and cases outside those regions are often travel related. We present a case of melioidosis in a man, with no known risk factors who had an unusual presentation with an infected abdominal aortic aneurysm by Burkholderia pseudomallei in Saudi Arabia, a country with no previous reported cases of this infection. It occurred after traveling to Thailand and he was treated successfully with medical therapy and surgical intervention.
