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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2008, p. 3479-3481, Vol. 46, No. 10
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01254-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Deployable Laboratory Response to Emergence of Melioidosis in Central Sri Lanka {triangledown}

Timothy J. J. Inglis,1* Adam Merritt,1 Joanne Montgomery,1 Indika Jayasinghe,2 Vasanthi Thevanesam,2 and Russell McInnes3

Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia,1 Department of Microbiology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka,2 Agilent Technologies, Melbourne, Australia3

Received 3 July 2008/ Accepted 6 August 2008

A portable molecular diagnostic laboratory was used to provide molecular confirmation of suspected melioidosis cases seen at Peradeniya Hospital, central Sri Lanka. Soil supernatants from rice field and rubber plantation samples also produced PCR-positive results. These procedures could be used for melioidosis field work in other remote locations.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, QEII Medical Centre, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Locked Bag 2009, Western Australia 6909, Australia. Phone: 618 9346 3461. Fax: 618 9381 7139. E-mail: tim.inglis{at}health.wa.gov.au

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 August 2008.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2008, p. 3479-3481, Vol. 46, No. 10
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01254-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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