Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch
Melioidosis, Northeastern Brazil
Table 2
Molecular typing patterns for Brazil outbreak 1 strain (patient 3), subsequent northeastern Brazilian isolates, and unrelated strains*†
Connection | Location | Type | Source | Culture | Ribotype | PFGE type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Outbreak 1 | Ceará, Brazil† | Clinical | Blood | B. pseudomallei | 1 | 2 |
Later case, outbreak 2 | Ceará, Brazil† | Clinical | Blood | B. pseudomallei | 6 | 9 |
Later case, outbreak 2 | Ceará, Brazil | Environ | Water | B. pseudomallei | 4 | 6 |
Later case, outbreak 2 | Ceará, Brazil | Environ | Soil | B. pseudomallei | 1 | 3 |
Cluster | WA, Australia | Clinical | Blood | B. pseudomallei | 1 | 1 |
Cluster | WA, Australia | Environ | Water | B. pseudomallei | 1 | 1 |
Later case 1 | WA, Australia | Clinical | Blood | B. pseudomallei | 2 | 4 |
Later case 2 | WA, Australia | Clinical | Blood | B. pseudomallei | 3 | 5 |
Later case 3 | WA, Australia | Clinical | Blood | B. pseudomallei | 5 | 8 |
NCTC 10276 | India | Clinical | Tissue | B. pseudomallei | 5 | 7 |
*PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; WA, Western Australia; Environ, environmental; B. pseudomallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei.
†Brazil outbreak 1 occurred at Tejusuoca; outbreak 2 occurred at Banabuiu, both in the state of Ceará.