General information
This bacteria causes Glanders.
What is Burkholderia mallei?
This is how a definitive diagnosis is made.
What is direct culture from affected sites?
True or false: is Glanders zoonotic?
True!
This is how Glanders is transmitted.
What is direct contact?
This is the group that Glanders must be reported to.
What is USDA/WOAH?
This may potentially occur with the chronic form of Glanders.
What is a carrier? (However, it's usually fatal)
These are two other names for Glanders.
What is Farcy and Malleus?
This is a continent where Glanders is endemic.
This is the incubation period for Glanders.
2-6 weeks
What is a fever?
What are humans?
This is a region where the disease is eradicated?
What is North America/Europe/Australia?
This is a potential risk factor for Glanders.
This form of Glanders causes crater-shaped ulcers around the muzzle and limbs, where nodules frequently become ulcerated and drain a thick yellow discharge.
What is the Cutaneous form?
These species are resistant to Glanders (name one).
What are cattle/pigs/rabbits/lab rats?
What is Bahrain?
What are donkeys, mules, and wild horses?
This is how Glanders is treated in equids.
Euthanasia
This is how the bacteria causing Glanders was used as a bioterrorism threat.
B. mallei was used against military horses and people starting in WWI
This country had a re-emergence of Glanders in 2009.
What is Brazil?