Burkholderia mallei
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MICROBIOLOGY
- Facultative, aerobic, nonmotile, slender, intracellular Gram-negative rod.
- Agent of glanders.
- If suspected, notify lab personnel.
- Classified as Tier 1 biological select agent, https://www.selectagents.gov, accessed 4/4/2017.
- May be erroneously identified as Pseudomonas sp. by standard microbiologic testing, morphologically indistinguishable from B. pseudomallei.
- Hard to see on Gram stain. Grows slowly, best with glycerol.
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