Synonyms
- pseudoglanders
- Whitmore's disease (after Captain Alfred Whitmore, who first described the disease)
- Nightcliff gardener's disease (Nightcliff is a suburb of Darwin, Australia where melioidosis is endemic)
- Paddy-field disease
- Morphia injector's septicaemia
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