Natural Burkholderia mallei infection in Dromedary, Bahrain

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

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bahrain
  • Burkholderia mallei / genetics*
  • Burkholderia mallei / isolation & purification
  • Camelus / microbiology*
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Glanders / diagnosis
  • Glanders / epidemiology
  • Glanders / microbiology*
  • Glanders / pathology
  • Glanders / transmission
  • Horse Diseases / diagnosis
  • Horse Diseases / epidemiology
  • Horse Diseases / microbiology*
  • Horse Diseases / pathology
  • Horse Diseases / transmission
  • Horses / microbiology*
  • Lung / microbiology
  • Lung / pathology
  • Multilocus Sequence Typing
  • Nasopharynx / microbiology
  • Nasopharynx / pathology
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / analysis

Substances

  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S