Burkholderia Pseudomallei is genetically diverse in agricultural land in Northeast Thailand.

• Main Authors: Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (Author), Direk Limmathurotsakul (Author), Narisara Chantratita (Author), Edward J Feil (Author), Nicholas P J Day (Author), Sharon J Peacock (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The soil-dwelling Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei is the cause of melioidosis. Extreme structuring of genotype and genotypic frequency has been demonstrated for B. pseudomallei in uncultivated land, but its distribution and genetic diversity in agricultural land where most human in...