Maryland Woman's Melioidosis Diagnosis
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•Diagnostic dilemma: A woman cleaned her fish tank and ended up in the hospital
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A 56-year-old woman in Maryland was hospitalized after experiencing fever, cough and chest pain for about two days .
She was diagnosed with melioidosis, a bacterial infection caused by a microbe that lives in soil and water in tropical and subtropical regions.
The patient had never traveled outside the continental U.S. , but she owned two fish tanks.
Scientists found that several samples from one tank tested positive for B. pseudomallei.
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