title: Endemic melioidosis in residents of desert region after atypically intense rainfall in central Australia, 2011.
abstract: After heavy rains and flooding during early 2011 in the normally arid interior of Australia, melioidosis was diagnosed in 6 persons over a 4-month period. Although the precise global distribution of the causal bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei remains to be determined, this organism can clearly survive in harsh and even desert environments outside the wet tropics.
authors.forename: Teem-Wing
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Yip
authors.forename: Saliya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hewagama
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mayo
authors.forename: Erin P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Derek S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Sarovich
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bastian
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Baird
authors.forename: Brian G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Spratt
authors.forename: Bart J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Currie
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D016957:Burkholderia pseudomallei; D003889:Desert Climate; D005843:Geography; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history / Q000382:microbiology*; D011891:Rain; D012111:Residence Characteristics
keywords: Australia; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Melioidosis; bacteria; climate; desert; endemic diseases; floods; rainfall