Melioidosis parotitis in children

Dance, David

A recent paper published in JVATiTD reporting a child in Hainan with parotitis caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei misleadingly described parotitis as a rare manifestation of melioidosis. In fact, it is one of the commonest forms of paediatric melioidosis seen in other parts of Southeast Asia, although interestingly not in Australia.(AU)

1. B. pseudomallei
2. Melioidosis Parotitis
3. Children
4. Paediatric