Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2011)

Natural Burkholderia mallei Infection in Dromedary, Bahrain

  • Ulrich Wernery,
  • Renate Wernery,
  • Marina Joseph,
  • Fajer Al-Salloom,
  • Bobby Johnson,
  • Joerg Kinne,
  • Shanti Jose,
  • Sherry Jose,
  • Britta Tappendorf,
  • Heidie Hornstra,
  • Holger Scholz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1707.110222
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 7
pp. 1277 – 1279

Abstract

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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.

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