Functional Activities of O-Polysaccharide and Hemolysin Coregulated Protein 1 Specific Antibodies Isolated from Melioidosis Patients

Abstract

Melioidosis is a fatal tropical disease caused by the environmental Gram-negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei . This bacterium is intrinsically resistant to several antibiotics and treatment of melioidosis requires prolonged antibiotic administration.