Molecular Typing of Burkholderia mallei Isolates from Equids with Glanders, India
Harisankar Singha
1 , Mandy C. Elschner
1 , Praveen Malik, Sheetal Saini, Bhupendra N. Tripathi, Katja Mertens-Scholz, Hanka Brangsch, Falk Melzer, Raj K. Singh, and Heinrich Neubauer
Author affiliations: Indian Council of Agricultural Research—National Research Centre on Equines, Haryana, India (H. Singha, S. Saini); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany (M.C. Elschner, K. Mertens-Scholz, H. Brangsch, F. Melzer, H. Neubauer); Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Government of India, New Delhi, India (P. Malik); Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi (B.N. Tripathi); Indian Council of Agricultural Research—Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, India (R.K. Singh)
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Figure. Minimum evolution trees based on 23 VNTR loci of 10 Burkholderia mallei isolates from Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Haryana states, India, compared with reference sequences. A) Comparison of Himachal Pradesh–Uttar Pradesh cluster isolates (blue circles) with 6 older B. mallei isolates from India. B) Comparison of Himachal Pradesh–Uttar Pradesh cluster isolates (red branches) with 77 previously published B. mallei isolates, including the 6 others from India (blue branches). Scale bars indicate allelic differences.
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