Melioidosis is an emerging infection in Brazil and neighbouring South American countries.The wide range of clinical presentations include severe community-acquired pneumonia, septicaemia, central nervous system infection and less severe soft tissue infection.Diagnosis depends heavily on the clinical microbiology laboratory for culture.Burkholderia

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is currently considered the method of choice for steroid hormone receptor status evaluation in human breast cancer and, therefore, it is commonly utilized for assessing canine mammary tumors.In case of low hormone receptor expression, IHC is limited and thus is complemented by molecular Mouthguard analyses.In the present