title: Melioidosis parotitis in children.
abstract: A recent paper published inJVATiTDreporting a child in Hainan with parotitis caused byBurkholderia pseudomalleimisleadingly 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.
authors.affiliation: Senior Clinical Research Fellow/Consultant Microbiologist, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Department of Microbiology, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR ; Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England UK ; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9189-7244
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dance
keywords: B. pseudomallei; Children; Melioidosis; Paediatric; Parotitis