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Clinical features and outcome of patients with cutaneous melioidosis during a nosocomial outbreak in a temperate region of Australia |
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| Authors: | Benjamin Clark Adam Merritt Tim Inglis Laurens Manning |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;2. Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;3. School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;4. School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Harry Perkins Institute, University of Western Australia, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Abstract: | Six cases of cutaneous melioidosis from southwestern Australia, a non‐endemic region occurred as a result of Burkholderia pseudomallei contamination of normal saline that was used for irrigating superficial wounds. Treatment with parenteral meropenem, given by continuous infusion for 2 weeks, followed by oral antibiotics was successful in all cases. |
| Keywords: | cutaneous melioidosis Burkholderia pseudomallei nosocomial outbreak meropenem infusions |