Short report: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis as a discriminatory typing technique for the biothreat agent Burkholderia mallei

• Main Authors: Narisara Chantratita, Mongkol Vesaratchavest, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Rachaneeporn Tiyawisutsri, Tsedev Ulziitogtokh, Erhan Akcay, Nicholas P J Day, Sharon J. Peacock
• 其他作者: Mahidol University
• 格式: Article
• 出版: 2018
• 主題: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• 在線閱讀: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/23355

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was used to type 21 laboratory strains of Burkholderia mallei. We demonstrated good resolution by PFGE together with clustering of some geographically related isolates, and confirmed previous observations that B. mallei is...