Environmental Surveillance for Potential Human Exposure to Burkholderia Pseudomallei Causing Melioidosis in Changing Land Use in East Malaysia
Keywords:
Melioidosis, seroepidemiology, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Indirect Hemagglutination Test (IHA)Abstract
Melioidosis is a potentially fatal disease caused by saprophytic bacteria, B. pseudomallei that are present in soil environment in tropical countries especially in South East Asia. The study was to determine the distribution of B. pseudomallei in changing land use in East Malaysia and the exposure among the communities. The soil samples were taken from school compound; Gedong Paddy Estate, villages and logging areas of Kakus in Bintulu were screened by culture methods and confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Blood sample from various occupational groups were taken for seroepidemiological exposure to B.pseudomallei by using Indirect Hemagglutination Antibody Test (IHAT). There were isolation of 23 sites for B. pseudomallei from the quadrants in football field and other playing ground in the one school compound in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia;
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