Melioidosis is a serious infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Clinical manifestations vary from subclinical to septicemic cases.
Acute septicemic patients were fatal within several days after the onset. Clinical manifestations also resemble many other infectious diseases. Immunological methods are applied for the development of laboratory methods for diagnosis of melioidosis. The produced antisera were used for detection of B. pseudomallei antigens from clinical specimens by immunological methods.