Melioidosis is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a gram negative non-fermentative bacillus found in water and soil. Transmission to human is by contact and it causes disease mostly in the immunocompromised state. As melioidosis closely mimics tuberculosis it is often misdiagnosed and often empirically treated as tuberculosis. Increasing numbers of published cases among Bangladeshis and isolation of B. pseudomallei in the soil of Gazipur district has confirmed our country as a ‘definite country for melioidosis’.

 

 

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