Melioidosis may be going undetected in India, study warns

A multicentre study found that nearly one in 11 high-risk hospitalised adults in India had melioidosis, a potentially deadly bacterial infection, and almost one in five confirmed patients died in hospital. Experts say frequent misdiagnosis, sometimes as tuberculosis, along with gaps in national surveillance, means the true burden is unknown, and they call for standardised case reporting to identify hotspots.