@article{6911e8380d7446c59a3d69fcbf4af841,
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.",
keywords = "ceftazidime, cotrimoxazole, meropenem, rain, abscess, adult, aged, alcohol consumption, Article, Australia, axillary abscess, bacterial arthritis, brain abscess, Burkholderia pseudomallei, chronic kidney disease, climate change, clinical article, desert, environmental impact, female, geographic distribution, human, male, melioidosis, multilocus sequence typing, non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, nonhuman, pneumonia, septic shock, skin abscess, young adult",
author = "Teem-Wing Yip and Saliya Hewagama and Mark Mayo and Erin Price and Derek Sarovich and Ivan Bastian and Robert Baird and Brian Spratt and Bart Currie",
year = "2015",
month = jun,
doi = "10.3201/eid2106.141908",
language = "English",
volume = "21",
pages = "1038--1040",
journal = "Emerging Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1080-6040",
publisher = "Centres for Disease Control and Prevention",
number = "6",
}