Jayasinghearachchi Himali S, Muthugama Thilini A, Masakorala Jayanthi, Kulasekara Upeksha S, Jayaratne Kumari, Jayatunga D A Dasun N, De Silva Aruna D, Corea Enoka M
Institute for Combinatorial Advanced Research and Education, General Sir John Kotelawala Defense University, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka.
Biomedical Laboratory 2, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defense University, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka.
Front Vet Sci. 2023 Jan 17;9:1045088. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.1045088. eCollection 2022.
is the causative agent of the potentially fatal infection, melioidosis. This study provides the first evidence for the presence of in soil and water in Sri Lanka. Targeted sampling of soil and natural water sources was done between November 2019 and October 2020 over eight field visits encompassing the neighborhood of 28 culture and/or antibody-positive melioidosis patients in northwestern, western and southern Sri Lanka. A total of eight environmental isolates of (BPs-env1 to BPs-env8) were cultured from 116 soil and 117 natural water samples collected from 72 locations. The presence of in soil and natural water in these areas poses a risk of melioidosis for populations cultivating crops in such soils and using untreated water from these sources for drinking, bathing, and other domestic purposes. Identifying sites positive for may help to mitigate risk by raising public awareness of contaminated environmental sources and allowing soil and water remediation.
是潜在致命感染类鼻疽的病原体。本研究首次提供了在斯里兰卡土壤和水中存在该病原体的证据。在2019年11月至2020年10月期间，对斯里兰卡西北部、西部和南部28名培养和/或抗体阳性类鼻疽患者周边地区进行了8次实地考察，对土壤和天然水源进行了有针对性的采样。从72个地点采集的116份土壤和117份天然水样中，共培养出8株该病原体的环境分离株（BPs-env1至BPs-env8）。这些地区土壤和天然水中存在该病原体，对在这类土壤中种植作物以及使用这些水源未经处理的水进行饮用、沐浴和其他家庭用途的人群构成了类鼻疽感染风险。识别该病原体呈阳性的地点，可通过提高公众对受污染环境源的认识并允许进行土壤和水的修复，有助于降低风险。
