AN ACUTE INFECTIOUS CONDITION (? GLANDERS)

Glanders.

JAVMA, Vol 233, No. 4, August 15, 2008 G is a highly contagious bacterial disease of horses, mules, and donkeys that is characterized by respiratory, cutaneous, and lymphatic nodular lesions. The disease is zoonotic, affecting persons in close contact with infected animals or those working with the organism in laboratory settings. Once prevalent worldwide, glanders has been eradicated from most...

A Case of Acute Cutaneous Glanders in Man

Glanders in man is rare in India. The Principal of the Bengal Veterinary College has reported that the disease is extremely rare here in man. Mr. Rajagopalam of the Imperial Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Kumaun, wrote to one (G. P.) of the authors of this note that he knew of only two cases of glanders in man in this country, both being veterinarians?Professor Gaiger (1913, 1916) an...

Glanders: an overview of infection in humans

Glanders is a highly contagious and often fatal zoonotic disease, primarily of solipds. In the developed world, glanders has been eradicated. However, prior use of B. mallei as a biological weapon and its high mortality in inhalation animal studies has affirmed B. mallei as a biodefense concern. This threat requires the development of new glanders medical countermeasures (MCMs), as there is a l...

From glanders to Hendra virus: 125 years of equine infectious diseases.

Josh Slater looks back at the past 125 years of developments in equine infectious disease, including landmark discoveries in microbiology and genomics, and considers what the future may hold.

Acute Infectious Diseases