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In Search For Melioidosis in Africa
The soil-dwelling bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiological-agent of the neglected and life-threatening emerging infection melioidosis. In central Sierra Leone, the presence of B. pseudomallei was not demonstrated, however, multiple novel Burkholderia thailandensis sequence types were identified. Birnie, et al. (2019)
Image Credit: Emma Birnie
Citation: (2019) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 13(6) July 2019. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13(6): ev13.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v13.i06
Published: July 3, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 Birnie. 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.
The soil-dwelling bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiological-agent of the neglected and life-threatening emerging infection melioidosis. In central Sierra Leone, the presence of B. pseudomallei was not demonstrated, however, multiple novel Burkholderia thailandensis sequence types were identified. Birnie, et al. (2019)
Image Credit: Emma Birnie