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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2025

Related Melioidosis Cases with Unknown Exposure Source, Georgia, USA, 1983-2024.

Skyler Brennan, Julie M Thompson, Christopher A Gulvik, Taylor K Paisie, Mindy Glass Elrod, Jay E Gee, Caroline A Schrodt, Katherine M DeBord, Brian T Richardson, Cherie Drenzek and 5 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Melioidosis Complicated by Native Valve Endocarditis in a Traveler Returning From Thailand to the United States.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  3. Review
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  5. Antibodies toMicroorganisms · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Skyler Brennan
Julie M Thompson
Christopher A Gulvik
Taylor K Paisie
Mindy Glass Elrod
Jay E Gee
Caroline A Schrodt
Katherine M DeBord
Brian T Richardson
Cherie Drenzek
William A Bower
Alex R Hoffmaster
Zachary P Weiner
Caitlin M Cossaboom
Julie Gabel

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We identified 4 cases of presumptive autochthonous melioidosis during 1983-2024 in Georgia, USA. Epidemiologic investigation identified no recent international travel before illness; all cases were geographically linked, and 3 patients became ill after a severe weather event. Bioinformatic analyses revealed Burkholderia pseudomallei genome sequences were highly related, suggesting a shared exposure.

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Burkholderia pseudomalleiMelioidosisAdultAgedFemaleGenome, BacterialGeorgiaHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhylogenybacteriaBurkholderia pseudomalleiGeorgiaMelioidosissepsisUnited Stateswhole-genome sequencing

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PMID40835221
PMCPMC12407204

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