title: Pediatric suppurative parotitis caused byBurkholderia pseudomallei.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Suppurative parotitis caused byBurkholderia pseudomalleihas been rarely found outside endemic areas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Herein, we report the recovery ofBurkholderia pseudomalleifrom the pus of a suppurative parotitis observed in a 12-year-old boy who lived in Hainan province, China. Specimens of necrotic tissue were collected and sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Pus sample was also collected for bacteriological examination. The suppurative inflammation was observed in the necrotic tissue section andBurkholderia pseudomalleiwere detected in the sample.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this adolescent,Burkholderia pseudomalleiinfection was present in the parotid, which consists of the first report of this bacterium in a parotitis case acquired in China.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Tropical Diseases (Hainan Medical University), Ministry of Education, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199 China.|Department of Pediatrics, Hainan Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Haikou, 571168 China.
authors.forename: Zengzhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Tropical Diseases (Hainan Medical University), Ministry of Education, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199 China.
authors.forename: Yingzi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Tropical Diseases (Hainan Medical University), Ministry of Education, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199 China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Tropical Diseases (Hainan Medical University), Ministry of Education, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199 China.|Faculty of Tropical Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Hainan Medical University, 3 Xue Yuan Road, Haikou, Hainan 570102 China.
authors.forename: Qianfeng
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5737-4842
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xia
keywords: Burkholderia pseudomallei; Melioidosis; Parotitis; Pediatrics