**a case of 62 years after exposed in Viet Nam
***"Vietnamese time-bomb"
**keep latent in macrophage for long time
***rational of long-term maintenance oral treatment
**where ''Burkholderia''-containing macrophages are kept in human body is still unknown
==risk factors==
*widespread metastatic abscesses
**liver, spleen, parotid gland, prostate in male, cutaneous, subcutaneous, keratitis
**parotitis/parotid abscess common in children in Thailand**in endemic areas, melioidosis is the commonest cause of children's suppurative parotits*hepatosplenic abscess common in Thailand**prostatic abscess common in Australia
==diagnosis==