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Volume 31, Number 2—February 2025
Research Letter

Burkholderia pseudomallei Sequence Type 46 Transmission from Asia to Australia

Ella M. MeumannComments to Author , Mirjam Kaestli, Jessica R. Webb, Vanessa Rigas, Celeste Woerle, Mark Mayo, and Bart J. Currie
Author affiliation: Territory Pathology, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (E.M. Meumann); Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin (E.M. Meumann, M. Kaestli, J.R. Webb, V. Rigas, C. Woerle, M. Mayo, B.J. Currie); Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin (E.M. Meumann, B.J. Currie); University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (J.R. Webb)

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Epidemiology and clinical features of Burkholderia pseudomallei cases identified in Australia as part of a study of intercontinental transmission of B. pseudomallei sequence type 46*

DPMS ID Age, y/sex Exposure risk Underlying conditions Location, year Clinical manifestations
861
 57/M
 Landscape grading
 Hazardous alcohol consumption,
COPD
 Rural area of Darwin, 2013
 Acute pneumonia
1100
 62/M
 Lawn mowing
 Diabetes, hazardous alcohol consumption
 Rural area of Darwin, 2013
 Acute pneumonia with septic shock
1102
 43/F
 Lawn mowing
 Diabetes, previous lymphoma
 Rural area of Darwin, 2013
 Acute pneumonia with septic shock
1266
 78/M
 Repotting plants
 Myelofibrosis, prostate cancer
 Rural area of Darwin, 2013
 Acute pneumonia
1329
 41/M
 Camping
 Diabetes, hazardous alcohol consumption
 Rural area of Darwin, 2013
 Chronic pneumonia
1401 31/M No identified exposure No underlying conditions Urban area of Darwin, 2023 Acute pneumonia with secondary soft tissue abscess left leg

*COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DPMS ID, Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study identification number.

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