Melioidosis is a potentially fatal disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is endemic in northern Australia and Southeast Asia including Malaysian Borneo. Infections occur due to exposures to water or soil containing the bacteria through skin inoculation, ingestion and inhalation. Clinical presentations of melioidosis are highly variable and can manifest as asymptomatic infections, localized skin abscess formation, acute or chronic pneumonia, genitourinary, bone, and joint infections, or severe systemic sepsis, with or without foci of multiple abscesses in internal organs, with a mortality of 90% in septic shock cases.