Physicochemical Determinants of Distribution of Sequence Types (ST) of Burkholderia pseudomallei from Small Ruminant Farms in Peninsular Malaysia

Abstract

P roperties or characteristics of the environment where soil or water micro-organisms reside have been shown to influence strain types (Ngamsang et al., 2015;Islam et al., 2020;Pandit et al., 2020). The saprophytic β-proteobacteria B. pseudomallei causes melioidosis, a potentially fatal infectious disease that affects both humans and animals. The organism is known to be endemic in certain parts of Southeast Asia and Australia and within these areas are pockets, where the organism is thought to occur at higher frequencies (Baker et al., 2015;Pongmala et al., 2022;Birnie et al., 2022). The biogeographical distribution of B. pseudomallei can be distinct and is reported to be associated