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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch

Melioidosis, Northeastern Brazil

Dionne Bezerra Rolim*, Dina Cortez Feitosa Lima Vilar†, Anastacio Queiroz Sousa*, Iracema Sampaio Miralles‡, Diana Carmen Almeida de Oliveira†, Gerry Harnett§, Lyn O'Reilly§, Kay Howard§, Ian Sampson§, and Timothy J.J. Inglis§Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Hospital São Jose, Ceará, Brazil; †Secretaria da Saude do Estado do Ceará, Ceará, Brazil; ‡Central Laboratory of Public Health for the State of Ceará, Ceará, Brazil; §Western Australian Centre for Pathology and Medical Research, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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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.

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