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. 2011 Jul;17(7):1277-9.
doi: 10.3201/eid1707.110222.

Natural Burkholderia mallei infection in Dromedary, Bahrain

Ulrich Wernery  1 , Renate Wernery, Marina Joseph, Fajer Al-Salloom, Bobby Johnson, Joerg Kinne, Shanti Jose, Sherry Jose, Britta Tappendorf, Heidie Hornstra, Holger C Scholz
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Natural Burkholderia mallei infection in Dromedary, Bahrain

Ulrich Wernery et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jul.

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.

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A) Severe mucopurulent discharge from both nostrils of a glanderous dromedary (Camelus dromedarius), Bahrain. B) Glanderous lesions in the choanae of a dromedary.
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Figure 2
Unrooted neighbor-joining tree based on 23 variable number tandem repeat loci demonstrating the genetic relationship of the camel strain (THSK2) to other existing strains of Burkholderia mallei. The most closely related B. mallei strain to THSK2 is Dubai 7, which was isolated from a horse in the United Arab Emirates in 2004. Scale bar represents 0.1 changes.
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