Four years after federal scientists found it in Mississippi soil and water, the bacterium that causes melioidosis is still quietly establishing itself along the Gulf Coast. New laboratory work suggests that the strains living there may not behave like the ones the world has spent decades studying.
In the August issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, C. P. Klimko and colleagues report lethal dose analyses in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice exposed to small-particle aerosols of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from the Western Hemisphere and Africa.
