1Villa 7, Gate 717 Road 2821, 528, Barbar, Kingdom of Bahrain
2Institute for Microbiology of the Armed Forces, Neuherbergstr 11, 80937, Muenich, Germany
Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 597, Dubai, U.A.E.
* email: cvrl@cvrl.ae
Online published on 22 March, 2012.
A natural infection of a glanders case in a dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) is reported here for the first time. This animal was most probably infected by glanderous horses which were housed nearby.
The camel showed the classical clinical signs of glanders with fever, emaciation, mucopurulent discharge from the nose, and glanderous lesions in the lung, choanae and nasal septae. The serum was positive in the CFT and cELISA.
B. mallei was isolated from the EDTA blood, from the choanal lesions as well as from nasal pus swabs after enrichment in guinea pig (Strauss reaction). All samples were positive for B. mallei with the PCR but negative for B. pseudomallei.
Dromedary camel, Glanders
