Arjun Srinivasan, M.D., Carl N. Kraus, M.D., David DeShazer, Ph.D., Patrice M. Becker, M.D., James D. Dick, Ph.D., Lisa Spacek, M.D., John G. Bartlett, M.D., W. Russell Byrne, M.D., and David L. Thomas, M.D.
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Infection with Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)can cause a subcutaneous infection known as farcy or can disseminateto cause the condition known as glanders. In humans, acute infectionwith B. mallei is characterized by necrosis of the tracheobronchialtree, pustular skin lesions, and either a febrile pneumonia,if the organism was inhaled, or signs of sepsis and multipleabscesses, if the skin was the portal of entry.1 At the turnof the 20th century, glanders was an important cause of deathamong horses, and there were secondary, often fatal, infectionsin humans.2 Because of the lethal and contagious . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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From the Division of Infectious Diseases (A.S., L.S., J.G.B., D.L.T.), the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (P.M.B.), and the Department of Pathology (J.D.D.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. (C.N.K.); and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Md. (D.D., W.R.B.).
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