melioidosis
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mel·i·oi·do·sis
(mĕl′ē-oi-dō′sĭs)n. An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, occurring in a wide range of animals chiefly in Southeast Asia and presenting in humans with a focal infection, usually of the lungs, bones, or skin, that can become chronic.
[New Latin
mēlioīdōsis : Greek
mēlis,
a disease of asses usually taken to be glanders +
-oid +
-osis.]
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Melioidosis, also called Whitmore's disease and
pseudoglanders, is a collective term for infection caused by the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly known as Pseudomonas pseudomallei and Malleomyces pseudomallei).
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