Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing to Link Burkholderia pseudomallei from Air Sampling to Mediastinal Melioidosis, Australia
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Mirjam Kaestli; Bart J. Currie; Mark Mayo; Ian B. Harrington; Glenda Harrington; Derek S. Sarovich; Vanessa Theobald; Erin P. Price
- Source
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 11, Pp 2052-2054 (2015)
- Subject
- Male
Melioidosis
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Epidemiology
Air Microbiology
lcsh:Medicine
Ceftazidime
Burkholderia pseudomallei from Air Sampling
law.invention
0302 clinical medicine
law
pathogen transmission
bacteria
Polymerase chain reaction
0303 health sciences
Dispatch
Middle Aged
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
Pneumonia (non-human)
medicine.drug
Microbiology (medical)
Air sampling
030231 tropical medicine
Biology
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Microbiology
biothreat
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Humans
pneumonia
lcsh:RC109-216
Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing to Link Burkholderia pseudomallei from Air Sampling to Mediastinal Melioidosis, Australia
genome
gram-negative bacterial infections
Whole genome sequencing
030306 microbiology
lcsh:R
Non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
Australia
Sequence Analysis, DNA
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
bacterial infections and mycoses
Virology
zoonoses
- Language
- ISSN
- 1080-6059
The frequency with which melioidosis results from inhalation rather than percutaneous inoculation or ingestion is unknown. We recovered Burkholderia pseudomallei from air samples at the residence of a patient with presumptive inhalational melioidosis and used whole-genome sequencing to link the environmental bacteria to B. pseudomallei recovered from the patient.