TY - JOUR
T1 - Surprisingly Low Seroprevalence of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Exposed Healthy Adults in the Darwin Region of Tropical Australia Where Melioidosis Is Highly Endemic
AU - James, Gemma
AU - Delaney, Ben
AU - Ward, Linda
AU - Freeman, Kevin
AU - Mayo, Mark
AU - Currie, Bart
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - In the Darwin region of Australia where melioidosis is highly endemic, only 11/354 (3%) healthy residents were seropositive by indirect hemagglutination assay, despite extensive exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei. None developed melioidosis, but some described a prior self-limiting illness. This seropositivity rate is much lower than that seen in northeast Thailand, where melioidosis is similarly highly endemic, potentially reflecting important differences between these two locations in the epidemiology of melioidosis.
AB - In the Darwin region of Australia where melioidosis is highly endemic, only 11/354 (3%) healthy residents were seropositive by indirect hemagglutination assay, despite extensive exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei. None developed melioidosis, but some described a prior self-limiting illness. This seropositivity rate is much lower than that seen in northeast Thailand, where melioidosis is similarly highly endemic, potentially reflecting important differences between these two locations in the epidemiology of melioidosis.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876883277&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1128/CVI.00021-13
DO - 10.1128/CVI.00021-13
M3 - Article
VL - 20
SP - 759
EP - 760
JO - Clinical and Vaccine Immunogloy
JF - Clinical and Vaccine Immunogloy
SN - 1556-6811
IS - 5
ER -