Burkholderia Outbreaks
Flagellin P-based PCR detected Burkholderia mallei in equine glanders outbreak
Published in World Disease Weekly, June 27th, 2006
According to recent research from Germany, "A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay targeting the flagellin P (fliP)-I S407A genomic region of Burkholderia mallei was developed for the specific detection of this organism in pure cultures and clinical samples from a recent outbreak of equine glanders.
"Primers deduced from the known fliP-IS407A sequence of B. mallei American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 23344(T) allowed the specific amplification of a 989-bp fragment from each of the 20 B. mallei strains investigated,...
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Source: World Disease Weekly (2006-06-27)
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