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Diverse Burkholderia Species Isolated from Soils in the Southern United States with No Evidence of B. pseudomallei
23 Nov 2015
Abstract excerpt
The global distribution of the soil-dwelling bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, causative agent of melioidosis, is poorly understood. We used established culturing methods developed for B. pseudomallei to isolate Burkholderia species from soil collected at 18 sampling sites in three states in the southern United States (Arizona (n = 4), Florida (n = 7), and Louisiana (n = 7)). Using multi-locus sequence typing...
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