Within-Host Evolution of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Burkholderia pseudomallei</named-content> over a Twelve-Year Chronic Carriage Infection

ABSTRACT Burkholderia pseudomallei causes the potentially fatal disease melioidosis. It is generally accepted that B. pseudomallei is a noncommensal bacterium and that any culture-positive clinical specimen denotes disease requiring treatment. Over a 23-year study of melioidosis cases in Darwin, Aus...

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Main Authors: Erin P. Price, Derek S. Sarovich, Mark Mayo, Apichai Tuanyok, Kevin P. Drees, Mirjam Kaestli, Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg, James S. Babic-Sternberg, Timothy J. Kidd, Scott C. Bell, Paul Keim, Talima Pearson, Bart J. Currie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013-08-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00388-13