title: Endobronchial mass in a patient with Burkholderia pseudomallei infection.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Burkholderia pseudomallei infection, the great mimicker of infectious diseases, has protean clinical manifestations.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 37-year-old man who presented with community-acquired pneumonia affecting the right upper lobe had unremitting fever. Bronchoscopy showed an endobronchial mass in the right upper lobe bronchus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Intravenous ceftriaxone and oral erythromycin, with empiric antituberculous treatment added later. This was subsequently switched to intravenous ceftazidime and oral doxycycline after the diagnosis was made.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was resolution of the endobronchial mass.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This case illustrates a unique and unreported presentation of melioidosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Khoo
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Y K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents