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SUBMITTER: Sarovich DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3950250 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sarovich Derek S DS Price Erin P EP Webb Jessica R JR Ward Linda M LM Voutsinos Marcos Y MY Tuanyok Apichai A Mayo Mark M Kaestli Mirjam M Currie Bart J BJ
PloS one 20140311 3
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative environmental bacterium that causes melioidosis, a potentially life-threatening infectious disease affecting mammals, including humans. Melioidosis symptoms are both protean and diverse, ranging from mild, localized skin infections to more severe and often fatal presentations including pneumonia, septic shock with multiple internal abscesses and occasionally neurological involvement. Several ubiquitous virulence determinants in B. pseudomallei have al ...[more]