TY - JOUR AU - Ko, Wen-Chien AU - Cheung, Bruno Man-Hon AU - Tang, Hung-Jen AU - Shih, Hsin-I AU - Lau, Yeu-Jun AU - Wang, Li-Rong AU - Chuang, Yin-Ching T1 - Melioidosis Outbreak after Typhoon, Southern Taiwan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 6 SP - 896 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From July through September 2005, shortly after a typhoon, 40 cases of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis) were identified in southern Taiwan. Two genotypes that had been present in 2000 were identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Such a case cluster confirms that melioidosis is endemic to Taiwan. KW - Melioidosis KW - Burkholderia pseudomallei KW - outbreak KW - southern Taiwan KW - typhoon KW - dispatch KW - Taiwan DO - 10.3201/eid1306.060646 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/6/06-0646_article ER - End of Reference