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Surveillance focus: glanders
Author(s) -
GonzalezMedina Sonia,
Toth Balazs,
Mawhinney Ian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.h3772
Subject(s) - surprise , focus (optics) , disease , identification (biology) , medicine , history , pathology , biology , communication , sociology , ecology , physics , optics
The recent identification of a case of glanders in a horse in Germany that had never travelled outside of the country serves as a reminder that disease freedom cannot be taken for granted. Here, Sonia Gonzalez‐Medina, Balazs Toth and Ian Mawhinney discuss various aspects of glanders, warning that, while an old disease, it can still surprise