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Case Reports
. 2018 Nov;24(11):2091-2094.
doi: 10.3201/eid2411.180821.

Burkholderia thailandensis Isolated from Infected Wound, Arkansas, USA

Jay E Gee, Mindy G Elrod, Christopher A Gulvik, Dirk T Haselow, Catherine Waters, Lindy Liu, Alex R Hoffmaster
Case Reports

Burkholderia thailandensis Isolated from Infected Wound, Arkansas, USA

Jay E Gee et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Nov.

Abstract

The bacterium Burkholderia thailandensis, a member of the Burkholderia pseudomallei complex, is generally considered nonpathogenic; however, on rare occasions, B. thailandensis infections have been reported. We describe a clinical isolate of B. thailandensis, BtAR2017, recovered from a patient with an infected wound in Arkansas, USA, in 2017.

Keywords: Arkansas; Burkholderia; United States; bacteria; clinical; melioidosis; pseudomallei; thailandensis; wound.

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Dendrogram used for characterization of Burkholderia thailandensis isolate (bold) from an infected wound, Arkansas, USA, 2017; compare, with reference isolates. Generated in MEGA 7.0 software (http://www.megasoftware.net) from results of maximum-parsimony phylogenetic analysis of core single-nucleotide polymorphisms from available B. thailandensis genomes (conducted by using Parsnp, a component of the Harvest 1.3 software suite [https://github.com/marbl/harvest]). Scale bar indicates number of substitutions per SNP.
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