What is it about?
I describe a case report of a previously healthy traveller contracting urinary tract melioidosis from Thailand, likely from a douche.
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Why is it important?
Melioidosis is a highly resistant bacterial disease that is not covered by usual empiric therapies against urinary tract infections and its possibility should be taken into account in travellers to endemic areas.
Perspectives
I was struck by the severe illness caused by an innocuous malfunction of douche and violent spout of water.
Mikko Seppänen
Helsinki University Central Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Melioidosis Presenting as Urinary Tract Infection in a Previously Healthy Tourist, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 2000, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00365540050164308.
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