MCQs in Tropical Medicine

Rob Skelly DTM+H FRCP

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Melioidosis

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a. The causative organism is Pseudomonas pseudomallei.

b. The infection is more common in diabetics and in people with chronic renal failure.

c. The treatment of choice is ceftazidime. Cefuroxime does not cover Pseudomonas species.

d. Infection is uncommon outside Southeast Asia and North Australia.

e. Parotitis is particularly common in affected children