Taxonomy	Species	Burkholderia mallei
	Category	Bacteria
	Genus	Burkholderia
	Family	Burkholderiaceae
	Order/Class	Burkholderiales
	Phylum	Proteobacteria
Human and animal disease	Human disease	Glanders
	Predominant syndrome	Respiratory
	Occ. risk group	n/a
	Incubation time	2 days- years
	Disease in farm animals	Yes
	Disease in pets and horses	Yes
	Disease in wildlife	Yes
	Specfic animal species	Donkeys, horses
Reservoirs	Humans	No
	Farm animals	Yes
	Pets and horses	Yes
	Wildlife	Yes
	Specific animal species	Donkeys, horses

Transmission	Human to human	Yes
	Skin	Yes
	Tissue/blood: Arthropods	No
	Tissue/blood: Invasive actions	No
	Secreta/excreta: Air	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Water/food/environment	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Close animal contact	No
	Transmission info	Water,soil, inhalation, skin breaks
Geographic distribution	Netherlands	No
	Europe	Yes
	Africa	Yes
	North America	Unknown
	South America	Yes
	Australia	Yes
	Asia	Yes
	Distribution info	SE Asia, Australia , SE Pacific, Central Am
Info	Specifics
	Human ref. website URL
	Animal ref. website URL

		Value		Normalised value	Weight	Score
1	Probability of introduction into the Netherlands	0.5	%	0	0.418	0
2	Transmission in animal reservoirs	0.05	%	0.53	0.292	0.15
3	Economic damage, animal reservoirs	0.5	M€	0	0.337	0
4	Animal-human transmission	0.005	%	0	0.626	0
5	Human-human transmission	0	%	0	0.339	0
6	Morbidity	0.2		0.59	0.181	0.11
7	Mortality	0.5	%	0.67	0.643	0.43
	Total					0.69
	Normalised score					0.27

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