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The reporting of a Bacillus anthracis B-clade strain in South Africa after more than 20 years.
BMC research notes - 2 May 2018
Lekota K E, Hassim A, Rogers P, Dekker E H, Last R, de Klerk-Lorist L, van Heerden H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Anthrax is a disease with an age old history in Africa caused by the Gram-positive endospore forming soil bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Epizootics of wild ungulates occur annually in the enzootic region of Pafuri, Kruger National Park (KNP) in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Rigorous routine surveillance and diagnostics in KNP, has not revealed these rare isolates since the 1990s, despite...
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