Mar Mar KyiTint Tint KyiSwe Swe ThitNe Myo Aung2015-10-302015-10-302014-09-01Mar Mar Kyi, Tint Tint Kyi, Swe Swe Thit, Ne Myo Aung. A forgotten disease of Myanmar origin. Myanmar Medical Journal. 2014 Sept ; 56 (2): 55-58.0007-6295http://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/164864A 16-year old student from Taungoo presented to medical ward, Insein General Hospital with one month-long fever, weight loss and multiple abscesses and ulcers at the face, limbs and trunk. Examination revealed pallor, remittent fever and hepatosplenomegaly. Imaging showed multiple splenic abscesses. Wound swab cultures from ulcers revealed gram negative coccobaccilli with characteristic of Burkholderia pseudomallei. The diagnosis was melioidosis. Defeverese time was 13 days after treatment with intravenous ceftazidime and amikacin. Recovery was uneventful. This case warrants the clinician, in case of recalcitrant septicaemia, to consider melioidosis-originally discovered in Myanmar but uncommon now.64p.enMyanmar Medical AssociationSepticemiaMyanmarMelioidosisArticle