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Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023
Synopsis

Clinical Manifestations and Genomic Evaluation of Melioidosis Outbreak among Children after Sporting Event, Australia

Simon SmithComments to Author , Tonia Marquardt, Amy V. Jennison, Andrew D’Addona, James Stewart, Trent Yarwood, Jennifer Ho, Enzo Binotto, Julian Harris, Mark Fahmy, Juliet Esmonde, Megan Richardson, Rikki M.A. Graham, Richard Gair, Lawrence Ariotti, Annie Preston-Thomas, Sally Rubenach, Siobhan O’Sullivan, Darren Allen, Thomas Ragh, Sachjuan Grayson, Sophie Manoy, Jeffery M. Warner, Ella M. Meumann, Jennifer M. Robson, and Josh Hanson
Author affiliations: Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (S. Smith, J. Stewart, T. Yarwood, J. Ho, E. Binotto, J. Harris, M. Fahmy, S. O’Sullivan, T. Ragh, S. Grayson, S. Manoy, J. Hanson); Cairns & Hinterland Health Service, Cairns (T. Marquardt, A. D’Addona, J. Esmonde, M. Richardson, R. Gair, A. Preston-Thomas, S. Rubenach); Forensic and Scientific Services, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (A.V. Jennison, R.M.A. Graham, L. Ariotti); University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia (T. Yarwood); James Cook University, Cairns (T. Yarwood, J. Ho); Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (D. Allen); James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (J.M. Warner); Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia (E.M. Meumann, J.M. Robson); Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (E.M. Meumann); University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (J. Hanson)

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Figure 6

Location of sporting event that resulted in an outbreak of limited cutaneous melioidosis, Australia. The sporting event involved crawling through a mud pit on an obstacle course. Inset shows detail of the mud pit area. Colored dots indicate environmental sampling sites and Burkholderia pseudomallei STs detected from samples. Among participants, 7 children who crawled through the mud pit had clinical manifestations of melioidosis. Burkholderia pseudomallei isolated in soil samples from the mud pit were later genomically linked to isolates from cutaneous lesions on 7 children. ST, sequence type.

Figure 6. Location of sporting event that resulted in an outbreak of limited cutaneous melioidosis, Australia. The sporting event involved crawling through a mud pit on an obstacle course. Inset shows detail of the mud pit area. Colored dots indicate environmental sampling sites and Burkholderia pseudomallei STs detected from samples. Among participants, 7 children who crawled through the mud pit had clinical manifestations of melioidosis. Burkholderia pseudomallei isolated in soil samples from the mud pit were later genomically linked to isolates from cutaneous lesions on 7 children. ST, sequence type.

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