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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2015

Neurotropic threat characterization of Burkholderia pseudomallei strains.

Jodie Morris, Anne Fane, Catherine Rush, Brenda Govan, Mark Mayo, Bart J Currie, Natkunam Ketheesan

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jodie Morris
Anne Fane
Catherine Rush
Brenda Govan
Mark Mayo
Bart J Currie
Natkunam Ketheesan
Townsville Hospital · AUMenzies School of Health Research · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The death rate for neurologic melioidosis is high. Whether certain Burkholderia pseudomallei strains are more likely than other strains to cause central nervous system infection and whether route of infection influences the neurotropic threat remain unclear. Therefore, we compared the virulence and dissemination of Australian clinical isolates collected during October 1989-October 2012 from patients with neurologic and nonneurologic melioidosis after intranasal and subcutaneous infection of mice in an experimental model. We did not observe neurotropism as a unique characteristic of isolates from patients with neurologic melioidosis. Rather, a distinct subset of B. pseudomallei strains appear to have heightened pathogenic potential for rapid dissemination to multiple tissues, including the central nervous system, irrespective of the infection route. This finding has valuable public health ramifications for initiating appropriate and timely therapy after exposure to systemically invasive B. pseudomallei strains. Increasing understanding of B. pseudomallei pathology and its influencing factors will further reduce illness and death from this disease.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAnimalsBacterial LoadBurkholderia pseudomalleiCentral Nervous SystemCentral Nervous System Bacterial InfectionsFemaleHumansMaleMelioidosisMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMiddle AgedVirulence

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PMID25530166
PMCPMC4285271
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