Residência Pediátrica (Mar 2023)

Melioidose em adolescente com diabetes mellitus tipo 1 com coinfecção por COVID-19: Relato de caso clínico

  • Diane Gomes Pontes,
  • Ana Julia Velozo Ribeiro,
  • José Holanda Maia Filho,
  • Ângela Elizabeth de Holanda Araújo Freita,
  • Vivianne Calheiros Chaves Gomes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25060/residpediatr-2023.v13n1-1005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1

Abstract

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Melioidosis is a rare and potentially fatal infection, emerging in Brazil and endemic in Ceará, caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which requires a high index of clinical suspicion for its diagnosis. It can manifest acutely, chronically or latently and, in general, in symptomatic patients there is sepsis with or without pneumonia. Diabetes mellitus is the main known risk factor. We present the case of a diabetic adolescent diagnosed with septicemic melioidosis and co-infection with COVID-19.

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