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J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.01254-08
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Deployable laboratory response to emergence of melioidosis in central Sri Lanka

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

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: tim.inglis{at}health.wa.gov.au.

	Abstract

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.