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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2018 Feb 1;4:17107. doi: 10.1038/nrdp.2017.107

Figure 4 |. Clinical manifestations of melioidosis.

Figure 4 |

Examples of possible clinical presentations of melioidosis: an MRI of the brainstem and cervical spinal cord with inflammatory changes consistent with encephalomyelitis (arrow, part 1); a ring-enhancing lesion with surrounding oedema in the MRI image indicating cerebral abscesses (arrow, part 2); a CT image of prostatic abscesses (arrow, part 3); a CT image of a mediastinal mass (arrow, part 4); a child with tense parotitis (arrow, part 5); X-ray image of severe pneumonia (arrow, part 6); photo of a subcutaneous abscess (arrow, part 7); and an MRI image of osteomyelitis of the distal femur with surrounding inflammation (arrow, part 8). Clinical images 1–4, 6–8 courtesy of Bart J. Currie, Menzies School of Health, Australia. Clinical image 5 is reproduced with permission from (REF. 249), Elsevier.