Burkholderia pseudomallei: Challenges for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory—a Response from the Front Line | Zendy

David A. B. Dance | Zendy; Direk Limmathurotsakul | Zendy; Bart J. Currie | Zendy

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Burkholderia pseudomallei: Challenges for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory—a Response from the Front Line

Author(s) -

David A. B. Dance,

Direk Limmathurotsakul,

Bart J. Currie

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.02378-16

Subject(s) - melioidosis , burkholderia pseudomallei , clinical microbiology , microbiology and biotechnology , burkholderia , incidence (geometry) , biology , virology , bacteria , genetics , physics , optics

The minireview by Hemajarata et al. (1) is timely since the global incidence of melioidosis has probably been grossly underestimated (2). However, the review reflects a very U.S. “select agent”-orientated perspective. In some parts of the world, laboratories isolate Burkholderia pseudomallei on an almost daily basis; our own laboratories diagnose more than 600 cases of culture-positive melioidosis each year, giving us a different perspective

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