CONTAMINATION OF HAND WASH DETERGENT LINKED TO OCCUPATIONALLY ACQUIRED MELIOIDOSIS
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 71 (3) , 360-362
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2004.71.360
Abstract
Two mechanics working at a garage in tropical northern Australia simultaneously developed upper limb melioidosis ulcers. Both patients had Burkholderia pseudomallei of identical pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) type (Spe I). Environmental sampling identified B. pseudomallei in a container of commercial hand wash detergent as the likely source of infection, although there were multiple isolates of different PFGE types to the clinical isolates.Keywords
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