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The additional 76 cases of laboratory-confirmed melioidosis confirmed further associations between <jats:italic>Burkholderia pseudomallei<\/jats:italic> multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and infection phenotype; ST1137\/unifocal bacteremic infection (\u03c7<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 3.86, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05), ST1136\/multifocal infection without bacteremia (\u03c7<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 15.8, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001), and ST1132\/unifocal nonbacteremic infection (\u03c7<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 6.34, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.02). ST1137 infections were predominantly seen in the Western Province, whereas ST1132, 1135, and 1136 infections predominated in the Northwestern Province. Early participating centers in the surveillance program had a lower melioidosis-associated mortality than later participants (\u03c7<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 3.99, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05). The based upon related sequence types (eBURST) algorithm, a MLST clustering method that infers founding genotypes and patterns of descent for related isolates and clonal complexes in an unrooted tree, showed uneven distribution of sequence types (STs). There was spatial clustering of the commonest STs (ST1132, 1136, and 1137) in the Western, Northwestern, and Central provinces. The recent increase in melioidosis in Sri Lanka uncovered by laboratory-enhanced surveillance is likely to be the result of a combination of improved laboratory detection, increased clinician awareness, recruitment of clinical centers, and small outbreaks. 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