Barry Mazin, Dada Hebah, Barry Mohammad, Almohaya Abdulellah, Aldrees Abdulwahab
Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Antimicrobial Resistance, Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Saudi Arabia.
IDCases. 2020 May 12;20:e00809. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00809. eCollection 2020.
Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia and Australia and cases outside those regions are often travel related. We present a case of melioidosis in a man, with no known risk factors who had an unusual presentation with an infected abdominal aortic aneurysm by in Saudi Arabia, a country with no previous reported cases of this infection. It occurred after traveling to Thailand and he was treated successfully with medical therapy and surgical intervention.
类鼻疽在东南亚和澳大利亚呈地方流行，这些地区以外的病例通常与旅行有关。我们报告一例类鼻疽病例，患者为一名男性，无已知风险因素，在沙特阿拉伯出现了不寻常的表现，即感染性腹主动脉瘤，该国此前无这种感染的报告病例。这是在他前往泰国旅行后发生的，他通过药物治疗和手术干预获得了成功治疗。
