Melioidosis parotitis in children. Issue 1 (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dance, David
• Is Part Of: Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases. Volume 22:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 1
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: Melioidosis -- Parotitis -- B. pseudomallei -- Paediatric -- Children; Poisonous animals -- Periodicals; Venom -- Periodicals; Toxins -- Periodicals; Tropical medicine -- Periodicals; Venoms -- Periodicals; Toxins -- Periodicals; Animals, Poisonous -- Periodicals; Tropical Medicine -- Periodicals; Animals, Poisonous -- Periodicals; Venoms -- Periodicals; Tropical Medicine -- Periodicals; Toxins -- Periodicals; Poisonous animals; Tropical medicine; Venom; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 615.9405
• DOI: 10.1186/s40409-016-0088-1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1678-9199

Abstract

Abstract A recent paper published inJVATiTD reporting a child in Hainan with parotitis caused byBurkholderia pseudomallei misleadingly described parotitis as a rare manifestation of melioidosis. In fact, it is one of the commonest forms of paediatric melioidosis seen in other parts of Southeast Asia, although interestingly not in Australia.