Burkholderia pseudomallei (Pseudomonas pseudomallei)

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Epidemiology

widely distributed in water & soil
endemic in Thailand & northern Australia
detected in environmental samples in Mississippi along the U.S. Gulf Coast region 2022^[4]

↑ Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 799
↑ eMedicine. Glanders and Melioidosis http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic884.htm
↑ Wikipedia: Melioidosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melioidosis
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Ingram I CDC: Bacteria Causing Deadly Disease Found in U.S. Soil for First Time. Agency warns of Burkholderia pseudomallei's potential for spread along Gulf Coast. MedPage Today July 27, 2022 https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/99936
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Melioidosis Locally Endemic in Areas of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolated in Soil and Water and Linked to Two Cases. CDC Health Alert Network. July 27, 2022 https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/han00470.asp