Neurologic Melioidosis: Case Report of a Rare Cause of Acute Flaccid Paralysis

Erik W Andersen; Mark T Mackay; Monique M Ryan

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.12.003

Neurologic Melioidosis: Case Report of a Rare Cause of Acute Flaccid Paralysis

J Pediatr. 2016 Mar:170:319-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.12.003. Epub 2016 Jan 8.

Authors

Erik W Andersen¹, Mark T Mackay², Monique M Ryan³

Affiliations

¹ Children's Neurosciences Center, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Children's Neurosciences Center, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Children's Neurosciences Center, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 26778096
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.12.003

Abstract

Acute flaccid paralysis is associated with inflammation, infection, or tumors in the spinal cord or peripheral nerves. Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei infection) can rarely cause this presentation. We describe a case of spinal melioidosis in a 4-year-old boy presenting with flaccid paralysis, and review the literature on this rare disease.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Child, Preschool
Humans
Male
Melioidosis / complications
Melioidosis / diagnosis*
Muscle Hypotonia / microbiology*
Paralysis / microbiology*