Monday, 28 January 2019

PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax - South Africa: (Kruger NP/LP) cheetah, new B strain, 2011

Anthrax -- South Africa
Lekota KE, Hassim A, Rogers P, et. al. The reporting of a _Bacillus anthracis_ B-clade strain in South Africa after more than 20 years. BMC Res Notes. 2018;11(1):264. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3366-x.
Abstract
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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

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6282006&promed&0

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