Deployable laboratory response to emergence of melioidosis in central Sri Lanka.
A portable molecular diagnostic laboratory was used to provide molecular confirmation of suspected melioidosis cases seen at Peradeniya Hospital, central Sri Lanka. Soil supernatants from rice field and rubber plantation samples also produced PCR-positive results. These procedures could be used for melioidosis field work in other remote locations.
Inglis
Timothy J J
TJ
Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, QEII Medical Centre, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Locked Bag 2009, Western Australia 6909, Australia. tim.inglis@health.wa.gov.au
Merritt
Adam
A
Montgomery
Joanne
J
Jayasinghe
Indika
I
Thevanesam
Vasanthi
V
McInnes
Russell
R
D016957:Burkholderia pseudomallei / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013188:Sri Lanka