An adolescent with type 1 diabetes and coinfection with melioidosis and COVID-19: a case report

Abstract

Melioidosis is a rare and potentially fatal infection, emerging in Brazil and endemic in Ceará, caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which requires a high index of clinical suspicion for its diagnosis. It can manifest acutely, chronically or latently and, in general, in symptomatic patients there is sepsis with or without pneumonia. Diabetes mellitus is the main known risk factor. We present the case of a diabetic adolescent diagnosed with septicemic melioidosis and co-infection with COVID-19.