Direk LimmathurotsakulVanaporn WuthiekanunPremjit AmornchaiGumphol WongsuwanNicholas P J DaySharon J. PeacockMahidol UniversityNuffield Department of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Cambridge2018-06-112018-06-112012-02-01Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Vol.78, No.3 (2012), 876-87710985336009922402-s2.0-84856190994https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/13503Detection of environmental Burkholderia pseudomallei indicates a risk for melioidosis and is important for the development of a global risk map. We describe a simple method for detecting B. pseudomallei using direct culture of soil in enrichment broth. This gives a rate of positivity comparable to that obtained with a standard method but is cheaper and labor saving. © 2012, American Society for Microbiology.Mahidol UniversityAgricultural and Biological SciencesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyEnvironmental ScienceImmunology and MicrobiologyArticleSCOPUS10.1128/AEM.07039-11