Whole-Genome Assemblies of 16 Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates from Rivers in Laos.
Nicole LiechtiRosalie E ZimmermannJakob ZopfiMatthew T RobinsonAlain PierretOlivier RibolziSayaphet RattanavongViengmon DavongPaul N NewtonMatthias WittwerDavid A B DancePublished in: Microbiology resource announcements (2021)
We report 16 Burkholderia pseudomallei genomes, including 5 new multilocus sequence types, isolated from rivers in Laos. The environmental bacterium B. pseudomallei causes melioidosis, a serious infectious disease in tropical and subtropical regions. The isolates are geographically clustered in one clade from around Vientiane, Laos, and one clade from further south.