TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Hua AU - Huang, Dongliang AU - Wu, Biao AU - Pan, Mengjie AU - Lu, Binghuai PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/21 TI - Fatal deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism secondary to melioidosis in China: case report and literature review JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 984 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Burkholderia pseudomallei is a gram-negative bacterium and the causative pathogen of melioidosis, which manifests a variety ranges of infection symptoms. However, deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) secondary to bacteremic melioidosis are rarely documented in the literature. Herein, we reported a fatal case of melioidosis combined with DVT and PE. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4627-6 DO - 10.1186/s12879-019-4627-6 ID - Wu2019 ER -