A rare case of melioidosis presenting as pericarditis and pneumonia in a patient with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus.

Melioidosis is a rare but often fatal tropical infection caused by gram-negative bacteria . It most commonly manifests as pneumonia and rarely presents as pericarditis. Melioidosis can be difficult to diagnose because of its diverse clinical manifestation and close resemblance to bacteria of the genus . We report a rare case of melioidosis presenting as pericarditis and pneumonia in a 61-year-old male patient with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. He was initially misdiagnosed with infection and later treated empirically as tuberculosis pericarditis for 2 months, before reaching the diagnosis of melioidosis.