On the Environmental Presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei in South-Central Ghana

Author:

Oduro George1,Robberts F. J. Lourens2ORCID,Dartey Paul K. A.3,Owusu-Ofori Alex14,Oppong Chris1,Gyampomah Thomas K.1,Boakye Isaac1,Quainoo Emmanuel1,AuCoin David P.5,Clark Danielle V.2,Schully Kevin L.6ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana

2. Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), The Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

3. CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

4. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

5. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA

6. Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center—Frederick, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, USA

Abstract

We present the first confirmation of the presence of B. pseudomallei in the environment of Ghana. This study will bring attention to a disease with the potential to cause significant morbidity and mortality in Ghana, but which has gone completely unrecognized until this point.

Funder

DOD | MHS | Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch

Defense Health Agency, MIDRP

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

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