@article{d063fa7bc7184bfe8b62fe1089040fbe,
title = "Prevalence and Sequence Diversity of a Factor Required for Actin-Based Motility in Natural Populations of Burkholderia Species",
abstract = "Actin-based motility of the melioidosis pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei requires BimA. We report a high degree of conservation of bimA in 99 B. pseudomallei isolates from the area of endemicity. A geographically restricted subset of B. pseudomallei isolates harbored a B. mallei-like bimA allele (12.1%), confounding a differential diagnostic test based on amplification of species-specific bimA regions. Copyright � 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.",
keywords = "actin, bacterial protein, protein BimA, unclassified drug, actin binding protein, bacterial DNA, BimA protein, Burkholderia pseudomallei, allele, article, bacterial gene, bacterium isolate, bimA gene, Burkholderia, Burkholderia pseudomallei, diagnostic test, endemic disease, gene amplification, gene sequence, melioidosis, nonhuman, nucleotide sequence, prevalence, priority journal, amino acid sequence, animal, Burkholderia mallei, DNA sequence, genetic polymorphism, genetics, human, isolation and purification, locomotion, microbiology, molecular genetics, sequence alignment, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, DNA, Bacterial, Endemic Diseases, Humans, Locomotion, Melioidosis, Microfilament Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Polymorphism, Genetic, Sequence Alignment, Sequence Analysis, DNA",
author = "C Sitthidet and Stevens, {Joanne M} and Narisara Chantratitia and Bart Currie and Peacock, {Sharon J} and S Korbsrisate and Mark Stevens",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "2418--2422",
journal = "Journal of Clinical Microbiology",
issn = "0095-1137",
publisher = "American Society for Microbiology",
number = "7",
}