Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2021)

Molecular Typing of Burkholderia mallei Isolates from Equids with Glanders, India

  • Harisankar Singha,
  • Mandy C. Elschner,
  • Praveen Malik,
  • Sheetal Saini,
  • Bhupendra N. Tripathi,
  • Katja Mertens-Scholz,
  • Hanka Brangsch,
  • Falk Melzer,
  • Raj K. Singh,
  • Heinrich Neubauer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2706.203232
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 6
pp. 1745 – 1748

Abstract

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We collected 10 Burkholderia mallei isolates from equids in 9 districts in India during glanders outbreaks in 2013–2016. Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis showed 7 outbreak area–related genotypes. The study highlights the utility of this analysis for epidemiologically tracing of specific B. mallei isolates during outbreaks.

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