Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2009)

Molecular Epidemiology of Glanders, Pakistan

  • Heidie Hornstra,
  • Talima Pearson,
  • Shalamar Georgia,
  • Andrew Liguori,
  • Julia Dale,
  • Erin P. Price,
  • Matthew O’Neill,
  • David DeShazer,
  • Ghulam Muhammad,
  • Muhammad Saqib,
  • Abeera Naureen,
  • Paul Keim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1512.090738
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 12
pp. 2036 – 2039

Abstract

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We collected epidemiologic and molecular data from Burkholderia mallei isolates from equines in Punjab, Pakistan from 1999 through 2007. We show that recent outbreaks are genetically distinct from available whole genome sequences and that these genotypes are persistent and ubiquitous in Punjab, probably due to human-mediated movement of equines.

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