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Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic Gram-negative bacillus that is found in soil and surface water. It causes the disease melioidosis, which infect humans and animals. Melioidosis can be fatal in human, where it causes fever and commonly present with pneumonia, with or without septicaemia. Melioidosis is primarily endemic in Southeast Asia a