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Table 3 Secondary clinical foci for major primary diagnostic groups

From: The epidemiology and clinical spectrum of melioidosis in a teaching hospital in a North-Eastern state of Malaysia: a fifteen-year review

Primary diagnosis

Total number

Number with secondary foci (% of total)

Most common secondary focia

Pneumonia

59

30(50.8 %)

8 skin and soft tissues, 8 liver, 5 spleen, 5 brain and 4 osteoarticular

Skin & soft tissue infection

34

19(55.8 %)

5 lungs, 8 skin and soft tissue, 1 liver, 1 spleen and 4 osteoarticular

Liver infection

7

4(57.1 %)

3 spleen and 1 osteoarticular

Spleen infection

2

1(50.0 %)

1 liver

Osteoarticular infection

18

12(66.6 %)

2 lungs, 1 skin and soft tissue, 3 liver and 6 osteoarticular

Brain infection

2

1(50.0 %)

1 liver

Prostate infection

3

2(66.6 %)

1 skin and soft tissue and 1 liver

  1. aMore than single secondary focus found in some cases