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Burkholderia, an aerobic gram-negative rod, is the causative organism behind melioidosis and is a common soil and water organism found predominantly in South-East Asia. We report the case of a 68 year-old man returning from an extended trip to the Philippines, with splenic hypodense lesions on abdominal com-puter tomography scan, later confirmed to be culture-positive for Burkholderia pseudoma-llei. The patient was treated with a course of intravenous ceftazidime followed by eradica-tion therapy with oral doxycycline and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. He recovered with complete resolution of symptoms at follo