Fig. 1.

Lung melioidosis. a Forty-three-year-old male with a 1-month history of fever, respiratory symptoms, (a) axial CT thorax showed large consolidation with cavitation, intercostal drainage tube with residual mild right sided effusion, small chest wall collection. b Sixty-five-year-old male, known diabetic, presented with fever and low oxygen saturation at the time of admission, axial CT performed depicts multiple nodules in the lungs. This patient succumbed to death on day 6 of admission. Axial CT performed for a 49-year-old male presented with a 7-day history of fever, sputum culture grew Burkholderia pseudomallei, blood culture grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa, CT thorax in (c) mediastinal and (d) lung windows show large, multisegmental consolidation with cavitations and multiple nodules. Despite starting treatment for both organisms and being on ventilator support, he died on day 5 of admission