Molecular epidemiology of glanders, Pakistan.

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 due to human-mediated movement of equines.

SUBMITTER: Hornstra H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3044535 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature