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<journal-id>0001-6002</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta Médica Costarricense]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta méd. costarric]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0001-6002</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0001-60022000000300007</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Melioidosis en Costa Rica: Reporte del primer caso]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Messino Julio]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alfredo]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Villegas Villareal]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[lrene]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Monseñor Sanabria  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Puntarenas ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Monseñor Sanabria  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Puntarenas ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2000</year>
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<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2000</year>
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<volume>42</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>131</fpage>
<lpage>133</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0001-60022000000300007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0001-60022000000300007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0001-60022000000300007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Melioidosis es una enfennedad infecciosa causada por la Burkholderia pseudomallef. Esta enfermedad es endémica en áreas tropicales de Asia y Australia y ha habido reportes aislados en Centro y Sur América. Aquí nosotros informamos del primer caso probado de melioidosis en Costa Rica, correspondiendo a un paciente sin historia de viajes a lugares endémicos. El paciente consultó por una bronconeumonía de adquisición comunitaria y sepsis. El hecho que el aislamiento bacteriano sea tan inusual en nuestro país implicó un retraso subsecuente en el inicio del tratamiento antibiótico específico en este caso, lo cual pudo influir en la evolución tan tórpida del paciente. Esto nos plantea el interrogante de si esta enfermedad debe ser incluida en el diagnóstico diferencial de sepsis de adquisición comunitaria en nuestro país.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Melioidosis in an infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. This disease is endemie in areas of tropical Asia and Australia; there have been isolated reports of the disease in Central and South America. Here we report the first documented case of Melioidosis in Costa Rica in a patient without a history of traveling lo endemic areas. The patient was seen at the hospital because of sepsis and a community acquired bronchopneumonia. Due lo the rareness of this bacterial isolation in our country the corroboration of the diagnosis was delayed and subsequently the specific antibiotics were started 5 days later after the admission, this could have influenced the torpid evolution the patient had. This case should alert us and points lo the need of including this rare disease in the differential diagnosis of community acquired sepsis in our country.]]></p></abstract>
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</front><body><![CDATA[  <B><FONT FACE="Arial">Casos Cl&iacute;nicos</FONT></B>     <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER>      <CENTER></CENTER>      <CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Melioidosis en Costa Rica: reporte del primer caso</FONT></B></CENTER>      <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER>      <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER>      <CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Alfredo Messino Julio<A NAME="1ab"></A></FONT></FONT></B><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1a">1</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp; <B>lrene Villegas Villareal<A NAME="2ab"></A></B></FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#2a">2</A></FONT></FONT></SUP></CENTER>       <P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Resumen</FONT></FONT></B>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Melioidosis es una enfennedad infecciosa causada por la <I>Burkholderia pseudomallef. </I>Esta enfermedad es end&eacute;mica en &aacute;reas tropicales de Asia y Australia y ha habido reportes aislados en Centro y Sur Am&eacute;rica. Aqu&iacute; nosotros informamos del primer caso probado de melioidosis en Costa Rica, correspondiendo a un paciente sin historia de viajes a lugares end&eacute;micos. El paciente consult&oacute; por una bronconeumon&iacute;a de adquisici&oacute;n comunitaria y sepsis. El hecho que el aislamiento bacteriano sea tan inusual en nuestro pa&iacute;s implic&oacute; un retraso subsecuente en el inicio del tratamiento antibi&oacute;tico espec&iacute;fico en este caso, lo cual pudo influir en la evoluci&oacute;n tan t&oacute;rpida del paciente. Esto nos plantea el interrogante de si esta enfermedad debe ser incluida en el diagn&oacute;stico diferencial de sepsis de adquisici&oacute;n comunitaria en nuestro pa&iacute;s.</FONT></FONT>     <BR>&nbsp;     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<BR>&nbsp;     <BR>&nbsp;     <BR><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Melioidosis es una enfermedad infecciosa causada por la <I>Burkholderia pseudonzallef, </I>end&eacute;mico en Asia, Norte de Australia, India subcontinental, Ir&aacute;n y Thailandia, donde causa 18% de las septicemias de adquisici&oacute;n comunitaria.</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1">1-5</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> Se han informado casos espor&aacute;dicos en pa&iacute;ses americanos diferentes como Panam&aacute;, M&eacute;xico, Estados Unidos y Ecuador. </FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1">1-2</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> Sin embargo, en Am&eacute;rica no es normalmente considerada como una alternativa diagn&oacute;stico en pacientes con sepsis extrahospitalaria, a menos que el paciente haya viajado a una &aacute;rea end&eacute;mica.</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#6">6-7</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> El aislamiento de esta bacteria en pa&iacute;ses tan cercanos como Panam&aacute;, siempre ha sido motivo de preocupaci&oacute;n en Costa Rica pero hasta el momento no se hab&iacute;a detectado ning&uacute;n caso de melioidosis confirmado en nuestro pa&iacute;s.</FONT></FONT>     <BR>&nbsp;      <P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Reporte del Caso</FONT></FONT></B>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Paciente masculino de 63 a&ntilde;os con historia de trabajar con ganado, fumador y conocido portador de DMNID tipo II, de 12 a&ntilde;os de evoluci&oacute;n en tratamiento con glibenclamida. Consult&oacute; por un cuadro de 8 d&iacute;as de fiebre, tos con expectoraci&oacute;n amarillenta y malestar general. Ingres&oacute; al Servicio de Emergencias consciente, orientado, hidratado, frecuencia cardiaca de 110 por minuto, T/A arterial de 120/70 mmHg, temperatura de 38 &ordm;C, y sin otra anormalidad al examen f&iacute;sico. La radiograf&iacute;a del t&oacute;rax inicial mostr&oacute; un m&iacute;nimo infiltrado en la base pulmonar derecha, leucocitosis de 40.000 con predominio de segmentados, glicemia en 297 mg/dl. Hemoglobina, hematocrito, plaquetas, creatinina, y BUN dentro de l&iacute;mites normales.</FONT></FONT>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>El paciente ingres&oacute; al Servicio de Medicina Interna con el diagn&oacute;stico de bronconeumon&iacute;a adquirida en la comunidad y se empez&oacute; tratamiento con penicilina s&oacute;dica. Veinticuatro horas despu&eacute;s de la admisi&oacute;n, el paciente present&oacute; una lipotimia y deterioro de su condici&oacute;n general con deshidrataci&oacute;n, para lo cual recibi&oacute; l&iacute;quidos endovenosos, con mejor&iacute;a parcial de su condici&oacute;n general. A las cuarenta y ocho horas, el paciente desarroll&oacute; insuficiencia respiratoria, que progres&oacute; a la claudicaci&oacute;n ventilatoria, traslad&aacute;ndose a la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos para ventilaci&oacute;n mec&aacute;nica. Una nueva radiograf&iacute;a de t&oacute;rax mostr&oacute; que el infiltrado se hab&iacute;a extendido y comprometido todo el pulm&oacute;n derecho. Se inici&oacute; entonces tratamiento con cefotaxime, gentamicina y vancomicina para cubrir bacilos Gram negativos y <I>Staphylococcus aureus. </I>Sesenta y dos horas despu&eacute;s de la admisi&oacute;n, el paciente progres&oacute; r&aacute;pidamente al s&iacute;ndrome de distress respiratorio del adulto, con saturaci&oacute;n de ox&iacute;geno de 80% requiriendo PEEP. En el quinto d&iacute;a de hospitalizaci&oacute;n se aisl&oacute; una <I>Burkholderia</I> <I>pseudomallei </I>de las secreciones bronquiales y en sangre. Debido a este hallazgo se empez&oacute; tratamiento con Ceftazidime. Desafortunadamente, poco despu&eacute;s el paciente desarroll&oacute; falla org&aacute;nica m&uacute;ltiple con compromiso renal, pulmonar y del sistema nervioso central que lo lleva a la muerte.</FONT></FONT>     <BR>&nbsp;      <P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Discusi&oacute;n</FONT></FONT></B>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>La melioidosis es una enfermedad con un espectro cl&iacute;nico amplio que incluye pacientes asintom&aacute;ticos, con fiebre de origen desconocido, infecci&oacute;n aguda o cr&oacute;nica de cualquier &oacute;rgano y septicemia. </FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1">1</A>,<A HREF="#3">3-7</A></FONT></FONT></SUP>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>La capacidad de la <I>Burkholderia pseudomallei </I>de sobrevivir intracelularmente y evitar la fagocitosis </FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#3">3</A>,<A HREF="#8">8</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> le confiere su habilidad de quedarse latente durante varios a&ntilde;os, se ha reportado hasta 26 a&ntilde;os </FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#2">2,3</A>,<A HREF="#6">6</A>.<A HREF="#8">8,9</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> y la posibilidad de producir reca&iacute;das frecuentes con una incidencia de 23%. Cl&iacute;nicamente, la presentaci&oacute;n m&aacute;s temible es la septicemia que tiene una mortalidad de 42% en la mayor&iacute;a de las series. </FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#4">4</A>-<A HREF="#6">6</A>-<A HREF="#10">10</A></FONT></FONT></SUP>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Los factores de riesgo para este tipo de infecci&oacute;n son: diabetes mellitus, insuficiencia renal, leucemia, carcinoma broncog&eacute;nico, cirrosis y lupus eritematoso sist&eacute;mico,</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1">1,2</A>,<A HREF="#5">5,6</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> as&iacute; como el alcoholismo, embarazo, desnutrici&oacute;n, anemia apl&aacute;sica, hemoglobinopat&iacute;as y terapia reciente con esteroides. </FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1">1,2</A>,<A HREF="#5">5</A>,<A HREF="#7">7</A></FONT></FONT></SUP>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>El diagn&oacute;stico tard&iacute;o se correlaciona con un aumento en la mortalidad,</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#11">11</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> al igual que dar un periodo m&aacute;s corto de tratamiento, como se hace cuando err&oacute;neamente se reporta como <I>una Pseudomona s.p.</I></FONT></FONT><I><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#5">5</A></FONT></FONT></SUP></I><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Tambi&eacute;n se ha descrito que en esta enfermedad el drenaje de abscesos puede deteriorar la condici&oacute;n del paciente y ha sido asociado con diseminaci&oacute;n de enfermedad localizada.</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#6">6</A></FONT></FONT></SUP>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>&iquest;Es necesario cambiar el diagn&oacute;stico y estrategias de manejo de pacientes que consultan por sepsis o neumon&iacute;as comunitarias en pa&iacute;ses no end&eacute;micos para melioidosis? Esta es la pregunta importante que deriva despu&eacute;s de haber tratado este caso, especialmente debido a su similar evoluci&oacute;n con respecto a los casos reportados previamente en sitios end&eacute;micos.</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#5">5-6</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> Cuando pacientes como este entra al hospital, la posibilidad de melioidosis no es usualmente considerada, mientras si lo son mieroorganismos como <I>staphylococus aureus y</I> <I>staphylococus </I>coagulasa negativo en el caso de septicemia adquirida en la comunidad y <I>streptococus pneumonia </I>en los casos de neumon&iacute;a extra hospitalaria.</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#1">1</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> Por esta raz&oacute;n, la ceftazidime, el antibi&oacute;tico de elecci&oacute;n para la melioidosis,</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#4">4,</A><A HREF="#12">12,13</A></FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1> no fue incluido entre los antibi&oacute;ticos del manejo inicial y su utilizaci&oacute;n se hizo 5 d&iacute;as despu&eacute;s hasta que el cultivo fue reportado. Este retardo significativo es ciertamente asociado con un incremento en la mortalidad.</FONT></FONT>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Adem&aacute;s, el reporte bacteriol&oacute;gico se retras&oacute; a&uacute;n m&aacute;s debido a los problemas de identificaci&oacute;n inicial ya que este es un germen inusual y que en muchos casos se confunde con reportes de <I>Pseudomonas Sp </I>en lugares donde la enfermedad no es end&eacute;mica. Una vez hecho el aislamiento, el cl&iacute;nico duda algunas veces de la veracidad de la identificaci&oacute;n debido a la baja frecuencia de la enfermedad. Esto nos sucedi&oacute; con este caso y fue necesario enviarlo a un laboratorio de referencia nacional (Laboratorio del Hospital Nacional de Ni&ntilde;os) para corroborar el diagn&oacute;stico. En pa&iacute;ses end&eacute;micos, nuevos avances en el diagn&oacute;stico ha permitido una r&aacute;pida identificaci&oacute;n usando pruebas de inmuno ensayo absorbente unidos a enzimas basados en afinidad de ant&iacute;genos purificados, reacci&oacute;n en cadena de la polimerasa, inmunohistoqu&iacute;mica y otros.</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="#17">14-17</A></FONT></FONT></SUP>     <BR>&nbsp;      <P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Agradecimientos</FONT></FONT></B>      <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Dra. Mar&iacute;a Paz Le&oacute;n Bratti, por su contribuci&oacute;n en la redacci&oacute;n del documento y al Dr. Marco T. Herrera, por su aporte en la confirmaci&oacute;n del diagn&oacute;stico bacteriol&oacute;gico en el Hospital Nacional de Ni&ntilde;os.</FONT></FONT>     <BR>&nbsp;      <P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Abstract</FONT></FONT></B>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Melioidosis in an infectious disease caused by <I>Burkholderia</I> <I>pseudomallei. </I>This disease is endemie in areas of tropical Asia and Australia; there have been isolated reports of the disease in Central and South America. Here we report the first documented case of Melioidosis in Costa Rica in a patient without a history of traveling lo endemic areas. The patient was seen at the hospital because of sepsis and a community acquired bronchopneumonia. Due lo the rareness of this bacterial isolation in our country the corroboration of the diagnosis was delayed and subsequently the specific antibiotics were started 5 days later after the admission, this could have influenced the torpid evolution the patient had. This case should alert us and points lo the need of including this rare disease in the differential diagnosis of community acquired sepsis in our country.</FONT></FONT>     <BR>&nbsp;      <P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Referencias</FONT></FONT></B>     <BR>&nbsp;      <!-- ref --><P><A NAME="1"></A><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>1 . Mandel D and Bennett's. Principies and practice of infections diseases, fourth editions 1995; 2003-2005.</FONT></FONT>    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=003629&pid=S0001-6002200000030000700001&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --><!-- ref --><P><A NAME="2"></A><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>2. Woods A, Jones A, Hill P. Interaction of insulin with Psedomonas Pseudomallei. 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