The public health significance of finding autochthonous melioidosis cases in the continental United States

Recently, the pathogen that causes melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, was found in the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi, United States of America, associated with human cases and as bacteria in the soil of affected areas. Therefore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared th...

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Autor principal: Torres, Alfredo G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37619236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011550
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description Recently, the pathogen that causes melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, was found in the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi, United States of America, associated with human cases and as bacteria in the soil of affected areas. Therefore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared the pathogen as endemic in the continental United States for the first time. This viewpoint discusses some issues that the research, public health communities, and government agencies need to address.
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spelling pubmed-104494672023-08-25 The public health significance of finding autochthonous melioidosis cases in the continental United States Torres, Alfredo G. PLoS Negl Trop Dis Viewpoints Recently, the pathogen that causes melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, was found in the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi, United States of America, associated with human cases and as bacteria in the soil of affected areas. Therefore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared the pathogen as endemic in the continental United States for the first time. This viewpoint discusses some issues that the research, public health communities, and government agencies need to address. Public Library of Science 2023-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10449467/ /pubmed/37619236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011550 Text en © 2023 Alfredo G. Torres https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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