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Melioidosis
Melioidosis
Statutory notification
Melioidosis is a notifiable infectious disease in Western Australia.
See
notifiable communicable disease case definitions (Word 1.29MB)
.
Notifications should be made using the communicable disease notification form for
metropolitan residents (PDF 214KB)
or
regional residents (PDF 213KB)
.
For notification of regional residents see contact details of
public health units
.
See also description of
Statutory medical notifications for WA Health
.
Public health management
Important information
Infectious agent
: Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Transmission
: Usually contact with contaminated soil or water through skin wounds, aspiration or ingestion of contaminated water or inhalation of soil dust.
Incubation period
: Can be as short as 2 days, but years may elapse between presumed exposure and symptoms.
Infectious period
: Person to person transmission has not been proven conclusively.
Case exclusion
: Do not exclude.
Contact exclusion:
Do not exclude.
Treatment:
Antibiotic treatment as recommended by the doctor.
Immunisation
: None available.
Case follow-up
: Is conducted by Public Health Units and the Communicable Disease Control Directorate.
Notifiable disease data and reports
Notifiable infectious disease dashboard
Infectious disease data
Produced by
Public Health