Erythritol as a single carbon source improves cultural isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei from rice paddy soils.

BACKGROUND:Isolation of the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei from tropical environments is important to generate a global risk map for man and animals to acquire the infectious disease melioidosis. There is increasing evidence, that the currently recommended soil culture protocol using threo...

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Main Authors: Trung T Trinh, Karoline Assig, Quyen T L Tran, André Goehler, Linh N H Bui, Claudia Wiede, Bettina Folli, Sabine Lichtenegger, Tinh T Nguyen, Gabriel E Wagner, Christian Kohler, Ivo Steinmetz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-10-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007821