Airborne Transmission of Melioidosis to Humans from Environmental Aerosols Contaminated with B. pseudomallei

Melioidosis results from an infection with the soil-borne pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei, and cases of melioidosis usually cluster after rains or a typhoon. In an endemic area of Taiwan, B. pseudomallei is primarily geographically distributed in cropped fields in the northwest of this area, wher...

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Published in:PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Main Authors: Chen, Pei-Shih, Chen, Yao-Shen, Lin, Hsi-Hsun, Liu, Pei-Ju, Ni, Wei-Fan, Hsueh, Pei-Tan, Liang, Shih-Hsiung, Chen, Chialin, Chen, Ya-Lei
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Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462588/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061639
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003834
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