Summary What is already known about this topic?Melioidosis,a tropical infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei(BP)infection,is endemic in the southern coastal provincial-level administrative divisions(PL...Summary What is already known about this topic?Melioidosis,a tropical infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei(BP)infection,is endemic in the southern coastal provincial-level administrative divisions(PLADs)of China.What is added by this report?Three melioidosis cases,including two in young children and one in a 19-year-old female,were reported in Anhui and Jiangxi(two inland PLADs of China)respectively,in 2021.None of the patients had a travel history to a melioidosis-endemic area.All the BP isolates belonged to the same sequence type(ST51),which had been reported from elsewhere in Southeast Asia.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project(2018ZX10714-002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81573208).
文摘Summary What is already known about this topic?Melioidosis,a tropical infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei(BP)infection,is endemic in the southern coastal provincial-level administrative divisions(PLADs)of China.What is added by this report?Three melioidosis cases,including two in young children and one in a 19-year-old female,were reported in Anhui and Jiangxi(two inland PLADs of China)respectively,in 2021.None of the patients had a travel history to a melioidosis-endemic area.All the BP isolates belonged to the same sequence type(ST51),which had been reported from elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
