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SUBMITTER: Kumar S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3165212 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumar Subodh S Malik Praveen P Verma Shailendra Kumar SK Pal Vijai V Gautam Vandana V Mukhopadhyay Chiranjay C Rai Ganga Prasad GP
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 20110713 9
Glanders, caused by the Gram-negative, nonmotile bacterium Burkholderia mallei, is a contagious and highly fatal disease of equines. During the last decade, the number of glanders outbreaks has increased steadily. The disease also has high zoonotic significance and B. mallei is listed biological warfare agent. The complement fixation test (CFT) is a routinely used and internationally recognized test to screen equine sera for the glanders. However, discrepant results have been observed using the ...[more]