Endemic Melioidosis in Residents of Desert Region after Atypically Intense Rainfall in Central Australia, 2011

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Yip, Teem-Wing ; Hewagama, Saliya ; Mayo, Mark ; Price, Erin P. ; Sarovich, Derek S. ; Bastian, Ivan ; Baird, Robert W. ; Spratt, Brian G. ; Currie, Bart J.
• Description:
  After heavy rains and flooding during early 2011 in the normally arid interior of Australia, melioidosis was diagnosed in 6 persons over a 4-month period. Although the precise global distribution of the causal bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei remains to be determined, this organism can clearly survive in harsh and even desert environments outside the wet tropics.
• Subjects:
  Burkholderia Pseudomallei Desert Climate Geography History, 21St Century Humans Melioidosis/Epidemiology Melioidosis/History Melioidosis/Microbiology Rain Residence Characteristics
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 21(6):1038-1040.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  Australia
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:288f607c6cf9c317dbb9bdef4dfb5c1c7dc8b9d9564fa91078073cebac8c6f27
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31542/cdc_31542_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.01 MB ]