Burkholderia pseudomallei Bacteria in Ornamental Fish Tanks, Vientiane, Laos, 2023
Venkatesan T., Siritana V., Silisouk J., Roberts T., Robinson MT., Dance DAB.
In 2019, a melioidosis case in Maryland, USA, was shown to have been acquired from an ornamental fish tank contaminated with Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria, likely derived from Southeast Asia. We investigated the presence of B. pseudomallei in ornamental fish tanks in the endemic area of Vientiane, Laos.