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Table 2 Bone and joint melioidosis in this study

From: The epidemiology and clinical spectrum of melioidosis in a teaching hospital in a North-Eastern state of Malaysia: a fifteen-year review

Joint & bone location

Osteoarticular melioidosisa

Culture negative septic arthritis

N = 8

Culture positive septic arthritis

N = 16

Osteomyelitis

N = 2

Elbow

1

4

 

Hip

 

1

 

Shoulder

3

1

 

Knee

2

8

 

Ankle

2

2

 

Tibia

  

2

  1. aA single patient may had several joints involvement