Melioidosis in Far North Queensland is not correlated with severe weather events
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DOI: 10.5694/mja16.01332
Abstract: elioidosis is an opportunistic tropical infection caused by the environmental bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. In MnorthernAustralia,most patients presentwith thedisease during the wet season, when heavy rainfall increases the B. pseudomallei load in the top soil. An… read more here.
Keywords: weather events; melioidosis far; far north; severe weather ... See more keywords