FIG 1.

Sampling site locations across urban Vientiane Capital. Sites where B. pseudomallei was detected by culture and/or direct detection in water are indicated by red triangles. Negative sites (green triangles) are those where B. pseudomallei was not identified in water by either detection method. The base map is from ArcGIS/Esri (sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, Intermap, increment P Corp., GEBCO, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, IGN, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China [Hong Kong], OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community).