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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2005, p. 970-972, Vol. 43, No. 2
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.2.970-972.2005
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Cutaneous Melioidosis in a Man Who Was Taken as a Prisoner of War by the Japanese during World War II

Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base,¹ Department of Pathology,² Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center,⁴ VA Mycology Reference Laboratory, Audie Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas³

Received 12 April 2004/ Returned for modification 1 June 2004/ Accepted 20 June 2004

Melioidosis, an infection caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. Human infection is acquired through contact with contaminated water via percutaneous inoculation. Clinical manifestations range from skin and soft tissue infection to pneumonia with sepsis. We report a case of a man who was taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese during World War II who presented with a nonhealing ulcer on his right hand 62 years after the initial exposure.

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