Burkholderia thailandensis Isolated from Infected Wound, Arkansas, USA

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

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Burkholderia thailandensis Isolated from Infected Wound, Arkansas, USA

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November 2018
By Gee, Jay E. ; Elrod, Mindy G. ; Gulvik, Christopher A. ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Gee, Jay E. ; Elrod, Mindy G. ; Gulvik, Christopher A. ; Haselow, Dirk T. ; Waters, Catherine ; Liu, Lindy ; Hoffmaster, Alex R.
Description:

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.
Subjects:

Adult Bacterial Typing Techniques Burkholderia Burkholderia Infections Dispatch Female Genome, Bacterial Humans Multilocus Sequence Typing Phylogeny Wound Infection/
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 24(11):2091-2094
Pubmed ID:

30334705
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC6199988
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom
Place as Subject:

Arkansas
Location:

North America
Volume:

24
Issue:

11
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:43f06d39b3ffc100a49728aaf8537b5be6f1cea9dd8b34727f2138d399d8a001
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