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Genetic diversity of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates in Australia.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Cheng Allen C, Ward Linda, Godoy Daniel, Norton Robert, Mayo Mark, Gal Daniel, Spratt Brian G, Currie Bart J
Abstract excerpt
Melioidosis is caused by the gram-negative saprophytic bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is endemic to southeast Asia and northern Australia. We have previously found evidence of geographic localization of strains based on multilocus sequence typing (MLST). In this study, we examined the diversity of 277 isolates from northern Australia, which were resolved into 159 different sequence types. No sequence...
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