Erythritol as a single carbon source improves cultural isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei from rice paddy soils.

• Main Authors: Trung T Trinh (Author), Karoline Assig (Author), Quyen T L Tran (Author), André Goehler (Author), Linh N H Bui (Author), Claudia Wiede (Author), Bettina Folli (Author), Sabine Lichtenegger (Author), Tinh T Nguyen (Author), Gabriel E Wagner (Author), Christian Kohler (Author), Ivo Steinmetz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Isolation of the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei from tropical environments is important to generate a global risk map for man and animals to acquire the infectious disease melioidosis. There is increasing evidence, that the currently recommended soil culture protocol using threo...