The reporting of a Bacillus anthracis B-clade strain in South Africa after more than 20 years.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Anthrax is a disease with an age old history in Africa caused by the Gram-positive endospore forming soil bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Epizootics of wild ungulates occur annually in the enzootic region of Pafuri, Kruger National Park (KNP) in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Rigorous routine surveillance and diagnostics in KNP, has not revealed these rare isolates since the 1990s, despite unabated annual outbreaks. In 2011 a cheetah was diagnosed as anthrax positive from a private game reserve in Limpopo Province and reported to State Veterinary Services for further investigation. Isolation, molecular diagnostics, whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics were carried out for B. anthracis KC2011.

Results

Bacteriological and molecular diagnostics confi

SUBMITTER: Lekota KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5930959 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature