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. 2023 May;29(5):1073-1075.
doi: 10.3201/eid2905.221138.

Presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Soil, Nigeria, 2019

Jelmer Savelkoel, Rita O Oladele, Chiedozie K Ojide, Rebecca F Peters, Daan W Notermans, Justina O Makinwa, Maaike C de Vries, Marion A E Sunter, Sébastien Matamoros, Nasiru Abdullahi, Uche S Unigwe, Alani S Akanmu, W Joost Wiersinga, Emma Birnie

Presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Soil, Nigeria, 2019

Jelmer Savelkoel et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 May.

Abstract

Melioidosis, caused by the soil-dwelling bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, is predicted to be endemic in Nigeria but is only occasionally reported. This report documents the systematic identification of the presence of B. pseudomallei and B. thailandensis in the soil across multiple states in Nigeria.

Keywords: Burkholderia pseudomallei; Burkholderia thailandensis; Nigeria; bacteria; environmental study; melioidosis.

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Phylogenetic tree of Burkholderia pseudomallei genomes from Nigeria (orange text) and additional genomes originating from Africa, all retrieved from the European Nucleotide Archive database. Tree generated by FastTree (http://www.microbesonline.org/fasttree) based on core single-nucleotide polymorphisms distance and visualized with iTOL (https://itol.embl.de). Colors indicate countries of origin. Asterisk indicates a previously sequenced, traveler-associated strain. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.
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