Burkholderia pseudomallei in Unchlorinated Domestic Bore Water, Tropical Northern Australia

Burkholderia pseudomallei in Unchlorinated Domestic Bore Water, Tropical Northern Australia

To determine whether unchlorinated bore water in northern Australia contained Burkholderia pseudomallei organisms, we sampled 55 bores; 18 (33%) were culture positive. Multilocus sequence typing identified 15 sequence types. The B. pseudomallei sequence type from 1 water sample matched a clinical is...

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Main Authors: Mark Mayo, Mirjam Kaestli, Glenda Harrington, Allen C. Cheng, Linda Ward, Danuta Karp, Peter Jolly, Daniel Godoy, Brian G. Spratt, Bart J. Currie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Burkholderia pseudomallei
bacteria
melioidosis
bore water
Northern Australia
dispatch
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/7/10-0614_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/7/10-0614_article

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