Molecular Epidemiology of Glanders, Pakistan.

Authors :: Hornstra, Heidie
Pearson, Talima
Georgia, Shalamar
Liguori, Andrew
Dale, Julia
Price, Erin
O'Neill, Matthew
DeShazer, David
Muhammad, Ghulam
Saqib, Muhammad
Naureen, Abeera
Keim, Paul
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases. Dec2009, Vol. 15 Issue 12, p2036-2039. 4p. 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart.
Publication Year :: 2009
Abstract: 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 because of human-mediated movement of equines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]