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. 2011 Jul;17(7):1283-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1707.100614.

Burkholderia pseudomallei in unchlorinated domestic bore water, Tropical Northern Australia

Mark Mayo  1 , Mirjam Kaesti, Glenda Harrington, Allen C Cheng, Linda Ward, Danuta Karp, Peter Jolly, Daniel Godoy, Brian G Spratt, Bart J Currie
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Burkholderia pseudomallei in unchlorinated domestic bore water, Tropical Northern Australia

Mark Mayo et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jul.

Abstract

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 isolate from a resident with melioidosis on the same property.

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Venn diagram of sequence types (STs) determined by multilocus sequence typing found in Burkholderia pseudomallei strains from bore water (n = 15 STs), human cases (n = 31 STs), and other environmental samples (n = 30 STs) from the rural region of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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