Detection of the reemerging agent Burkholderia mallei in a recent outbreak of glanders in the United Arab Emirates by a newly developed fliP-based polymerase chain reaction assay

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 241-247

  Scholz, Holger C ^a   Joseph, Marina ^b   Tomaso, Herbert ^a   Al Dahouk, Sascha ^a   Witte, Angela ^c   Kinne, Joerg ^b   Hagen, Ralph M ^a   Wernery, Renate ^b   Wernery, Ulrich ^b   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Burkholderia mallei; Flagellin P; Glanders; PCR assay

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HORSE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ANIMALS; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLIN; GLANDERS; HORSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 33645870682     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.09.018     Document Type: Article

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