TY - JOUR AU - Cossaboom, Caitlin AU - Marinova-Petkova, Atanaska AU - Strysko, Jonathan AU - Rodriguez, Gretchen AU - Maness, Trevor AU - Ocampo, Jaime AU - Gee, Jay AU - Elrod, Mindy AU - Gulvik, Christopher AU - Liu, Lindy AU - Bower, William AU - Hoffmaster, Alex AU - Blaney, David AU - Salzer, Johanna AU - Yoder, Jonathan AU - Mattioli, Mia AU - Sidwa, Thomas AU - Ringsdorf, Lillian AU - Morrow, Gale AU - Ledezma, Elvia AU - Kieffer, Amanda T1 - Melioidosis in a Resident of Texas with No Recent Travel History, United States T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 6 SP - 1295 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To our knowledge, environmental isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, from the continental United States has not been reported. We report a case of melioidosis in a Texas resident. Genomic analysis indicated that the isolate groups with B. pseudomallei isolates from patients in the same region, suggesting possible endemicity to this region. KW - melioidosis KW - Burkholderia pseudomallei KW - bacteria KW - autochthonous KW - emerging pathogen KW - endemicity KW - travel history KW - zoonoses KW - Texas KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid2606.190975 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/19-0975_article ER - End of Reference