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Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Cutaneous Melioidosis Cluster Caused by Contaminated Wound Irrigation Fluid

Adam J. Merritt, Mariani Peck, Dionne Gayle, Avram Levy, Yi-Horng Ler, Edward Raby, Tristan M. Gibbs, and Timothy J.J. InglisComments to Author 
Author affiliations: PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia (A.J. Merritt, M. Peck, D. Gayle, A. Levy, Y.-H. Ler, T.M. Gibbs, T.J.J. Inglis); University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (A.J. Merritt, T.J.J. Inglis); Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (E. Raby)

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Figure 1

Neighbor-joining tree of aligned multilocus sequence typing sequences of Burkholderia pseudomallei clinical isolates from a 2012–2013 cutaneous melioidosis cluster in the temperate southern region of Western Australia (patients A and C–G) and indistinguishable environmental isolate (saline) with sequence type (ST) 1112 and their genetic relatedness to other isolates from the Western Australian Burkholderia Collection (C30, NCTC13177, BCC25, and BCC26). Isolates from patients B and H are shown as

Figure 1. Neighbor-joining tree of aligned multilocus sequence typing sequences of Burkholderia pseudomallei clinical isolates from a 2012–2013 cutaneous melioidosis cluster in the temperate southern region of Western Australia (patients A and C–G) and indistinguishable environmental isolate (saline) with sequence type (ST) 1112 and their genetic relatedness to other isolates from the Western Australian Burkholderia Collection (C30, NCTC13177, BCC25, and BCC26). Isolates from patients B and H are shown as less closely related to the ST-1112 cluster. B. thailandensis E264 is used as an outgroup and root for the tree. Tree inference was performed in MEGA5 (22). Bootstrap values >50 (>1,000 replicates) are shown. Scale bar indicates base substitutions per site (20–24).

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