ReviewThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2011
The aftermath of the Western Australian melioidosis outbreak.
Review in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Systematic review and consensus guidelines for environmental sampling of Burkholderia pseudomallei.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2013Pooled it
- Global dispersal of Burkholderia pseudomallei and the evolving endemicity of melioidosis in the United States of America.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Review
- A molecular epidemiological analysis of Burkholderia pseudomallei in southern Thailand.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- A Persisting Nontropical Focus of Burkholderia pseudomallei with Limited Genome Evolution over Five Decades.mSystems · 2020Article
- Deciphering the Virome ofViruses · 2020Article
- Melioidosis: An Australian Perspective.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2018Review
- High-Resolution Metatranscriptomics Reveals the Ecological Dynamics of Mosquito-Associated RNA Viruses in Western Australia.Journal of virology · 2017Article
- The Role of Climate in the Epidemiology of Melioidosis.Current tropical medicine reports · 2017Review
- Cutaneous Melioidosis Cluster Caused by Contaminated Wound Irrigation Fluid.Emerging infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Effects of Colonization of the Roots of Domestic Rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Amaroo) by Burkholderia pseudomallei.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Article
- Alteration of the phenotypic and pathogenic patterns of Burkholderia pseudomallei that persist in a soil environment.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2014Article
- The occurrence of melioidosis is related to different climatic conditions in distinct topographical areas of Taiwan.Epidemiology and infection · 2014Article
- Use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis for rapid confirmation of Burkholderia pseudomallei in septicemic melioidosis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedHeath, Christopher [corrected to Heath, Christopher H]
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Melioidosis became a notifiable disease in Western Australia (WA) 2 years after the West Kimberley melioidosis outbreak. Two cases of melioidosis caused by the outbreak genotype of Burkholderia pseudomallei (National Collection of Type Cultures [NCTC] 13177) occurred in 1998 and 1999 in persons who visited the outbreak location at the time. No other infections caused by the outbreak strain have been recorded in WA since that time, despite an average of four culture-positive cases per year. Sporadic cases of melioidosis often follow tropical storms and cyclones during summer, and they have been detected outside the endemic area when cyclones travel far inland. In 2007, environmental isolates resembling NCTC 13177 were found 500 km east of the outbreak location after unusually severe weather. Recent whole-genome analysis places NCTC 13177 genetically close to other Australian isolates. Additional biogeographic and ecological studies are needed to establish the relative importance of environmental cofactors in disease pathogenesis.
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