Simultaneous infection with more than one strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei is uncommon in human melioidosis.

A prospective study was performed to determine the rate at which patients with melioidosis are infected with more than one strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Genotyping of 2,058 bacterial colonies isolated from 215 samples taken from 133 patients demonstrated that mixed infection is uncommon (2/13...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Limmathurotsakul, D, Wuthiekanun, V, Chantratita, N, Wongsuvan, G, Thanwisai, A, Biaklang, M, Tumapa, S, Lee, S, Day, N, Peacock, S
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2007
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Sammanfattning:A prospective study was performed to determine the rate at which patients with melioidosis are infected with more than one strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Genotyping of 2,058 bacterial colonies isolated from 215 samples taken from 133 patients demonstrated that mixed infection is uncommon (2/133 cases [1.5%; 95% confidence interval, 0.2 to 5.3%]).