Table. Clinical and patient characteristics and sequence type diversity of bim_Bm and bim_Bp Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates, Australia.

Isolate no.	Age, y/sex	Risk factors	Clinical presentation	Outcome	MLST genotype
bimBm
MSHR62	23/M	None	Brainstem encephalitis	Survived	148
MSHR435	37/M	None	Brainstem encephalitis	Survived	126
MSHR543	22/F	None	Skin ulcer	Survived	294
MSHR668	53/M	None	Diffuse encephalitis	Survived	129
MSHR1153	59/M	DBT	Brainstem encephalitis	Died	117
MSHR2138	49/F	DBT	Bacteremia	Survived	456
NCTC13178	6/M	None	Brainstem encephalitis	Died	286
bimBp
MSHR305	64/M	ALC	Encephalitis, myelitis	Died	36
MSHR346	49/M	ALC, COPD	Pneumonia	Survived	243
MSHR465	67/M	DBT, COPD	Pneumonia, septic shock	Died	132
MSHR1655	61/F	COPD	Pneumonia	Survived	131
MSHR3709	14/M	None	Brainstem encephalitis	Survived	132
MSHR974*	16/F	None	Skin ulcer	Survived	554
MSHR4237*	45/F	None	Pneumonia	Survived	868
NCTC13179	54/M	DBT	Skin ulcer	Survived	613

*Additional isolates included for internalization and persistence assays. ALC, hazardous alcohol use; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DBT, diabetes; MLST, multilocus sequence typing.