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SUBMITTER: Teparrukkul P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092629 | biostudies-other | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Teparrukkul Prapit P Kongkasame Worrarat W Chitsaeng Songla S Wongsuwan Gumphol G Wuthiekanun Vanaporn V Peacock Sharon J SJ Limmathurotsakul Direk D
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 20170401 4
<h4>Background</h4>Little is known about the involvement of the human gut in carriage and disease associated with Burkholderia pseudomallei, the cause of melioidosis.<h4>Methods</h4>A hospital-based study was conducted in Northeast Thailand to culture stools or rectal swabs from patients with melioidosis, stools from controls with non-infectious diseases, and gastric biopsies from patients undergoing routine endoscopic investigation.<h4>Results and conclusion</h4>B. pseudomallei was isolated fro ...[more]