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Child Melioidosis Deaths Caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei-Contaminated Borehole Water, Vietnam, 2019

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 28, Issue 8, Pages 1689-1693

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2808.220113

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  1. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam [QG.21.57]
  2. Vingroup Innovation Foundation [2020.TS.33]

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Within 8 months, 3 children from 1 family in northern Vietnam died from melioidosis caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. The same sequence type, 541, was isolated from clinical samples, borehole water, and garden and rice field soil.
Within 8 months, 3 children from 1 family in northern Vietnam died from melioidosis. Burkholderia pseudomallei of the same sequence type, 541, was isolated from clinical samples, borehole water, and garden and rice field soil. Boreholes should be properly constructed and maintained to avoid B. pseudomallei contamination.

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