Skin models for cutaneous melioidosis reveal infection dynamics at wound's edge with inflammasome activation, keratinocyte extrusion and epidermal detachment.

Melioidosis is a serious infectious disease endemic in Southeast Asia, Northern Australia and has been increasingly reported in other tropical and subtropical regions in the world. Percutaneous inoculation through cuts and wounds on the skin is one of the major modes of natural transmission. Despite cuts in skin being a major route of entry, very little is known about how the causative bacterium initiates an infection at the skin and the disease manifestation at the skin known as cutaneous melioidosis.