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SUBMITTER: Varga JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3524150 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Varga John J JJ Vigil Adam A DeShazer David D Waag David M DM Felgner Philip P Goldberg Joanna B JB
Virulence 20121001 6
The genetic similarity between Burkholderia mallei (glanders) and Burkholderia pseudomallei (melioidosis) had led to the general assumption that pathogenesis of each bacterium would be similar. In 2000, the first human case of glanders in North America since 1945 was reported in a microbiology laboratory worker. Leveraging the availability of pre-exposure sera for this individual and employing the same well-characterized protein array platform that has been previously used to study a large cohor ...[more]