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Volume 31, Number 7—July 2025

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Multisystemic Disease and Septicemia Caused by Presumptive Burkholderia pseudomallei in American Quarter Horse, Florida, USA

Jason J. ThorntonComments to Author , John F. Roberts, David P. AuCoin, and Apichai Tuanyok
Author affiliation: University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA (J.J. Thornton, J.F. Roberts, A. Tuanyok); University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA (D.P. AuCoin)

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Monoclonal antibody labeling through immunohistochemistry or Western blot analysis of various strains of Burkholderia species in study of multisystemic disease and septicemia caused by presumptive Burkholderia pseudomallei in American quarter horse, Florida, USA

Monoclonal antibody Florida case B. pseudomallei B. pseudomallei MSHR840, serotype B2 B. pseudomallei Bp82, serotype A B. pseudomallei 576mn, serotype B B. cepacia
complex (12), n = 19		 B. mallei ATCC 23344, serotype A variant
4C4, Bp CPS + + + + – –
4C7, Bp O-Ag serotype A – – + – – –
3A2, Bp O-Ag serotype B + + – + – –
5B4, Bp O-Ag serotype B2 + + – + – –
3D11, Bm O-Ag serotype A variant – – – – – +

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