Out of the ground: Aerial and exotic habitats of the melioidosis bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei in grasses in Australia

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2058-2070

  Kaestli, Mirjam ^a   Schmid, Michael ^b   Mayo, Mark ^a   Rothballer, Michael ^b   Harrington, Glenda ^a   Richardson, Leisha ^a   Hill, Audrey ^a   Hill, Jason ^c   Tuanyok, Apichai ^d   Keim, Paul ^d   Hartmann, Anton ^b   Currie, Bart J ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts ^*  (Australia)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MELIOIDOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; RHIZOSPHERE; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MELIOIDOSIS; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; POACEAE; RHIZOSPHERE; SEASONS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; POACEAE;

EID: 84864383208     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02671.x     Document Type: Article

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