Animal Melioidosis Surveillance In Sabah

Melioidosis is an infectious disease of public health importance which it was first described in Malaysia in 1913 among laboratory guinea pigs and rabbits; though the disease was first reported in breeding stock of pigs imported from Australia in 1963 in Sabah. Infection occurs in different animal species, most frequently terrestrial and marine mammals both in domestic and wild animal with chronicity, silently and wide range of symptoms. The transmission of the pathogen B.pseudomallei and the fluctuation on melioidosis frequency during dry and wet seasons are strongly gathered and supported by environmental factors such as temperature, rainfall and different soil type's compositions.