ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2022
Genomic Epidemiology Links Burkholderia pseudomallei from Individual Human Cases to B. pseudomallei from Targeted Environmental Sampling in Northern Australia.
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- Next-Generation Sequencing in Melioidosis: Enhancing Diagnosis, Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Geographical distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Taiwanese croplands and the influence of bacterial community interactions on its incubation viability.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Melioidosis in goats at a single Australian farm was caused by multiple diverse lineages of Burkholderia pseudomallei present in soil.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Burkholderia pseudomallei and melioidosis.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Using Genomics to Understand the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in the Northern Territory of Australia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Review
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Abstract
Each case of melioidosis results from a single event when a human is infected by the environmental bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Darwin, in tropical northern Australia, has the highest incidences of melioidosis globally, and the Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study (DPMS) commenced in 1989, documenting all culture-confirmed melioidosis cases. From 2000 to 2019, we sampled DPMS patients' environments for B. pseudomallei when a specific location was considered to be where infection occurred, with the aim of using genomic epidemiology to understand B. pseudomallei transmission and infecting scenarios. Environmental sampling was performed at 98 DPMS patient sites, where we collected 975 environmental samples (742 soil and 233 water). Genotyping matched the clinical and epidemiologically linked environmental B. pseudomallei for 19 patients (19%), with the environmental isolates cultured from soil (
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