Melioidosis - Orthopaedic perspective

Melioidosis carries a very high mortality rate, clinical manifestation can range from acute fulminant sepsis to latent infection with 9% recurrence rate. The early diagnosis and long term treatment plays a key role in patient recovery and in preventing recurrence. Being a mimicker of many other diseases, clinical suspicion and adequate diagnsotic approach plays important role in confirming melioidosis. It requires long term antibiotic controll disease and prevent recurrence. In this series authors presents the importance of clinical and specific radiological findings in rasing an early suspicion of disease and modifying the laboratory work up accordingly to confirm the same and reduced morbidity and mortality