Table 1 |
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| Prevalence of four B. pseudomallei O-antigen types in near-neighbors | |||||
| Species | Total strains tested | Known B. pseudomallei O-antigen | |||
| Type A | Type B | Type B2 | Rough Type | ||
| B. mallei | 23 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| B. oklahomensis | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. thailandensis | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1† | 0 |
| B. thailandensis-like | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| B. cepacia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. multivorans | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. ubonensis | 44 | 0 | 11 | 1‡ | 0 |
| B. vietnamiensis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unidentified Burkholderia spp. | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 0 |
†Strain 82172, collected from French foal.
‡Strain MSMB108, collected from Northern Australian environment.
*Strain MSMB175, a soil strain collected from Australia. This strain is currently being proposed as a new Burkholderia species.
Stone et al. BMC Microbiology 2012 12:250 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-12-250
