Utility of a Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFI) to Detect Burkholderia pseudomallei in Soil Samples.

• Main Authors: Patpong Rongkard (Author), Viriya Hantrakun (Author), Sabine Dittrich (Author), Prapaporn Srilohasin (Author), Premjit Amornchai (Author), Sayan Langla (Author), Cherry Lim (Author), Nicholas P J Day (Author), David AuCoin (Author), Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (Author), Direk Limmathurotsakul (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Culture is the gold standard for the detection of environmental B. pseudomallei. In general, soil specimens are cultured in enrichment broth for 2 days, and then the culture broth is streaked on an agar plate and incubated further for 7 days. However, identifying B. pseudomallei on the ag...