Casopís lékar̆ů c̆eských.
Publisher:
Ceskoslovenska Lekarska Spolecnost
Frequency: Bimonthly, 2013-
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Start Year:1862 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0008-7335 (Print) 1805-4420 (Electronic) 0008-7335 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0004743 |
| (DNLM): | C08680000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01553478 |
| Coden: | CLCEAL |
| LCCN: | sn 86009312 |
| Classification: | W1 CA919 |
[Glanders–an eradicable disease–or a threat?]. Glanders (malleus), attacking equids and transmissible to humans, does not occur in our geographical area any more, but world-wide eradication has not yet been achieved. Cases of glanders have been reported from India, Iraq, Mongolia and China and in 2001 also from South America. The disease is caused by Burkholderia mallei (earlied known as Bacillus, Pfeiferella, Loefflerella, Malleomyces, Actinobacillus, or Pseudomonas mallei). The continual interest of microbiologists in the causative agents indicates that glanders cannot be regarded as a closed historic episode. Occupational infections of ...