Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 08.12.2020
DTRA CB is learning why one stubborn bacterium just loves humans so much. In a large family, there is at least one rebel. In the bacterial family of Burkholderia, which includes over 100 siblings, Burkholderia pseudomallei is this outlier because of its ability to virulently infect humans. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labels B. pseudomallei as a Category B bioterror......
