PMID: 15381819Sep 24, 2004Paper

Contamination of hand wash detergent linked to occupationally acquired melioidosis

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Daniel GalB J Currie

Abstract

Two mechanics working at a garage in tropical northern Australia simultaneously developed upper limb melioidosis ulcers. Both patients had Burkholderia pseudomallei of identical pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) type (Spe I). Environmental sampling identified B. pseudomallei in a container of commercial hand wash detergent as the likely source of infection, although there were multiple isolates of different PFGE types to the clinical isolates.

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