Abstract
We confirm a natural infection of dromedaries with glanders. Multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis of a Burkholderia mallei strain isolated from a diseased dromedary in Bahrain revealed close genetic proximity to strain Dubai 7, which caused an outbreak of glanders in horses in the United Arab Emirates in 2004.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Bahrain
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Burkholderia mallei / genetics*
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Burkholderia mallei / isolation & purification
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Camelus / microbiology*
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Disease Outbreaks
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Glanders / diagnosis
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Glanders / epidemiology
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Glanders / microbiology*
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Glanders / pathology
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Glanders / transmission
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Horse Diseases / diagnosis
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Horse Diseases / epidemiology
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Horse Diseases / microbiology*
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Horse Diseases / pathology
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Horse Diseases / transmission
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Horses / microbiology*
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Lung / microbiology
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Lung / pathology
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Multilocus Sequence Typing
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Nasopharynx / microbiology
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Nasopharynx / pathology
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / analysis