Direk LimmathurotsakulGumphol WongsuvanDavid AanensenSujittra NgamwilaiNatnaree SaipromPatpong RongkardJanjira ThaipadungpanitManas KanoksilNarisara ChantratitaNicholas P.J. DaySharon J. PeacockMahidol UniversityImperial College LondonSappasitthiprasong HospitalChurchill HospitalAddenbrooke's Hospital2018-11-092018-11-092014-02-01Emerging Infectious Diseases. Vol.20, No.2 (2014), 265-26810806059108060402-s2.0-84892601865https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/34307We identified 10 patients in Thailand with cultureconfirmed melioidosis who had Burkholderia pseudomallei isolated from their drinking water. The multilocus sequence type of B. pseudomallei from clinical specimens and water samples were identical for 2 patients. This finding suggests that drinking water is a preventable source of B. pseudomallei infection.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.3201/eid2002.121891