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Young boy ploughing a rice paddy field in Thailand.
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is often found in wet soils, and farmers in endemic areas can be exposed due to lack of appropriate foot protection (see Sim et al., doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000178).
Image Credit: Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Mahidol University, Thailand
Citation: (2008) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 4(10) October 2008. PLoS Pathog 4(10): ev04.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v04.i10
Published: October 31, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Wuthiekanun. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is often found in wet soils, and farmers in endemic areas can be exposed due to lack of appropriate foot protection (see Sim et al., doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000178).
Image Credit: Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Mahidol University, Thailand