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Expanded Range of Burkholderia Species in Australia

This study describes the isolation and characterization of several Burkholderia species from soil in northern Australia. Phenotypic and molecular tests indicate that these isolates belong to the species Burkholderia thailandensis and Burkholderia ubonensis. These observations significantly extend our knowledge of the geographic distribution of these 2 species. Evidence of these species in Australia has implications for bacterial identification in clinical laboratories, diagnostic serology tests, and environmental biodiversity studies.

Received November 9, 2007. Accepted for publication January 26, 2008.

Acknowledgments: We thank Vanaporn Wuthiekanun for kindly supplying the B. thailandensis strains used for comparison purposes. The authors thank Tim Reid at The Naval Medical Research Center Annex, Rockville, MD, for sequencing the B. thailandensis and B. ubonensis genomes. We also appreciate the advice offered by Steve Munyard in phenotypic characterization of isolates and Lyn O’Reilly in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.

^* Address correspondence to Avram Levy, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands, 6009 Western Australia, Australia. E-mail: a-levy{at}cyllene.uwa.edu

Authors’ addresses: Avram Levy, Adam J. Merritt, Max Aravena-Roman, Meredith M. Hodge, and Timothy J. J. Inglis, Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Western Australia, Telephone: +61 (08) 9346 1357, Fax: +61 (08) 9381 7139, E-mail: a-levy{at}cyllene.uwa.edu.au.

Reprint requests: Avram Levy, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands, 6009 Western Australia, Australia, Telephone: +61 (08) 9346 1357, Fax: +61 (08) 9381 7139, E-mail: a-levy{at}cyllene.uwa.edu.