Burkholderia pseudomallei in Water Supplies, Southern Thailand
Janjira Thaipadungpanit
1 , Wirongrong Chierakul
1, Worawut Pattanaporkrattana, Anusorn Phoodaeng, Gumphol Wongsuvan, Viriya Huntrakun, Premjit Amornchai, Supawat Chatchen, Rungrueng Kitphati, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Nicholas P.J. Day, Sharon J. Peacock, and Direk Limmathurotsakul
Author affiliations: Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (J. Thaipadungpanit, W. Chierakul, G. Wongsuvan, V. Huntrakun, P. Amornchai, S. Chatchen, V. Wuthiekanun, N.P.J. Day, S.J. Peacock, D. Limmathurotsakul); Koh Phangan Hospital, Surat Thani, Thailand (W. Pattanaporkrattana, A. Phoodaeng); Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand (R. Kitphati); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (N.P.J. Day); University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (S.J. Peacock)
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Figure. Location and multilocus sequence types of Burkholderia pseudomallei from water supplies on Koh Phangan, Thailand, 2012. A total of 190 water samples are indicated on the map. Twenty-six samples that were culture positive for B. pseudomallei are shown by black stars together with the sequence type, and 164 samples that were culture negative for B. pseudomallei are indicated as gray dots.
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