Tropical disease kills 1, infects 7 Jan 25, 2008
KILLER BUG: Dr Vicki Krause fronts the media to discuss the recent melioidosis outbreak in the Top End ... ONE person has died and three more are fighting for their lives in intensive care after contracting melioidosis in the Top End ... "This is a serious disease - every year we have people dying from melioidosis," she said. (Northern Territory)
Finding link to anthrax, professor set NAU apart Dec 16, 2007
In two days, he leaves for Thailand, where he has a project with melioidosis, a lethal infectious disease found in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Since 2001, his research on other common diseases has expanded. (AZCentral -- News)
Arizona Biomedical Research Commission Nov 27, 2007
5 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop tools for melioidosis, or Whitmore's disease. That illness was part of the biowarfare arsenal for both the U.S. and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Implicit gets $16.3M to study disease 'weapons' Oct 23, 2007
According to the company, melioidosis is a disease found in Southeast Asia ... Implicit Bioscience and scientists at the Infectious Diseases and Immunopathogenesis Research Group at Queensland's James Cook University in Australia said they've discovered a drug that might protect against melioidosis. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Implicit Bioscience Oct 23, 2007
According to the company, melioidosis is a disease found in Southeast Asia. It's also common in Australia's Northern Territory, where the agent causing the disease is found. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Implicit Awarded US $16.3 Million U.S. Government Contract to Develop Immunomodulatory Drug for Biodefense Threats Oct 21, 2007
Among these diseases is melioidosis which is the most common cause of death from bacterial pneumonia in Australia's Northern Territory and is endemic in South East Asia ... Researchers within the Infectious Diseases and Immunopathogenesis Research Group at Queensland's James Cook University working with Implicit scientists recently investigated the ability of oglufanide to protect against melioidosis in an animal model. (PR Newswire)
Tandem repeat regions within the Burkholderia pseudomallei genome and their application for high resolution genotyping Mar 31, 2007
The facultative, intracellular bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a serious infectious disease of humans and animals. We identified and categorized tandem repeat arrays and their distribution throughout the genome of B. pseudomallei strain K96243 in order to develop a genetic typing method for B. pseudomallei. (BioMed Central)
Melioidosis survivor 'not obvious candidate' for disease Mar 19, 2007
A survivor of melioidosis who spent ten days in an induced coma in Royal Darwin Hospital during his treatment says he was not an obvious candidate for catching the disease. Melioidosis is caused by a soil bacteria which can be exposed in heavy rain and has killed two people in the Northern Territory this wet season. (ABC News Online, Australia)
Tropical disease kills two in NT Mar 15, 2007
Fourteen people have been diagnosed with Melioidosis this wet season, five of whom presented with symptoms of the disease last week ... Melioidosis is caused by bacteria found in surface water and mud after heavy rain ... "Reduction of exposure is important for preventing melioidosis, so wear waterproof shoes or boots when in wet and muddy areas and avoid wading through flood waters," Dr Krause said. (Ninemsn)
NT flood disease kills 2 Mar 14, 2007
Two people are dead and three people are in Royal Darwin Hospital after an outbreak of the tropical disease melioidosis in the wake of the Northern Teritory's Top End floods. There have been 14 cases of meliodosis, or nightcliff gardener's disease, so far this wet season. (ABC Online)
Health authorities issue urgent meliodosis warning Mar 14, 2007
The tropical disease melioidosis has claimed two lives in a week prompting an urgent warning from health authorities. Melioidosis or nightcliff gardener's disease is caused by a soil bacteria that is exposed by heavy rains. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Health)
Killer disease warning after desert deluge Jan 24, 2007
The dirt could contain the potentially life-threatening disease melioidosis, caused by bacteria found in surface water and mud after heavy rain ... We usually consider melioidosis to be a disease of the Top End and the tropics, and the risk is low given there have only been 10 cases in 10 years in Central Australia, said Centre for Disease Control coordinator Rosalie Schultz ... The Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services issued an urgent statement today, warning that the... (NEWS.com.au)
Flooding may increase melioidosis disease risk Jan 24, 2007
The Northern Territory's Health Department says recent flooding in central Australia could increase the prevalence of the potentially life-threatening disease melioidosis. There have been 10 cases of the disease in the region during the past decade, including one death. (ABC Online)
Rainfall prompts deadly disease warning Dec 29, 2006
The Northern Territory's Health Department is warning of an increased risk of the potentially life-threatening disease melioidosis after recent heavy rainfalls in the Top End ... The Centre for Disease Control spokeswoman Vicki Krause says melioidosis can be found in a number of areas in the Territory ... There have been 28 melioidosis cases this year including one man who died from the disease last wet season. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Australia/Local)
New frontier in research Nov 10, 2006
Anne RymanThe Arizona RepublicNov. Arizona's three state universities are quietly becoming more involved in bioterrorism research, securing tens of millions of dollars in grants. (AZCentral -- News)
Genomic patterns of pathogen evolution revealed by comparison of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, to avirulent Burkholderia thailandensis May 26, 2006
The Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp) is the causative agent of the human disease melioidosis. To understand the evolutionary mechanisms contributing to Bp virulence, we performed a comparative genomic analysis of Bp K96243 and B. thailandensis (Bt) E264, a closely related but avirulent relative. (BioMed Central)
Climate change to worsen melioidosis outbreaks: expert May 12, 2006
A leading expert in tropical diseases says the Top End can expect more severe outbreaks of melioidosis as a result of climate change ... "With more severe weather events, when people do get melioidosis then they can be more sick with it because the melioidosis is probably inhaled or breathed in," he said. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Australia/Local)
