Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2021)

Nonclonal Burkholderia pseudomallei Population in Melioidosis Case Cluster, Sri Lanka

  • Himali S. Jayasinghearachchi,
  • Vaithehi R. Francis,
  • Harindra D. Sathkumara,
  • Shivankari Krishnananthasivam,
  • Jayanthi Masakorala,
  • Thilini Muthugama,
  • Aruna D. De Silva,
  • Enoka M. Corea

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2711.210219
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 11
pp. 2955 – 2957

Abstract

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A melioidosis case cluster of 10 blood culture–positive patients occurred in eastern Sri Lanka after an extreme weather event. Four infections were caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates of sequence type 594. Whole-genome analysis showed that the isolates were genetically diverse and the case cluster was nonclonal.

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