Investigation of a Fatal Imported Case of Melioidosis — Jingmen City, Hubei Province, China, May 2026
What is already known about this topic? Melioidosis, caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei (B. pseudomallei), is endemic in tropical coastal regions. What is added by this report? This report describes a fatal imported case of sequence type 55 (ST55) melioidosis from Hainan Province. The patient developed s...