GLANDERS 101 



B. mallei is easily destroyed by heat and by chemi- 

 cals. 



Glanders may occur in acute or chronic form, the 

 acute form being ushered in by a chill and high 

 temperature, followed in a few days by an inflamma- 

 tion of the mucous membranes of the nose, and later 

 showing nodules and greatly enlarged glands in 

 different parts of the body. Death usually occurs 

 in a few days. Mules and asses suffer more often 

 with the acute form than horses, the latter usually 

 being afflicted with the chronic form, in which there 

 is a profuse infectious catarrhal discharge from the 

 nose. 



The infection of glanders through the skin is 

 known as "farcy," and is characterized by sweUing 

 and nodules of the lymphatic glands. The nodules 

 in both forms of glanders become softened and turn 

 into ulcers. The bacilli are found in the young 

 nodules, in the nasal discharges, and in acute general 

 infection vasty be found in the blood. 



Glanders Infection in Man. — Grooms and others 

 working with horses are most liable to contract glan- 

 ers, and several instances are recorded of the infec- 

 tion of laboratory workers. Man rarely contracts 

 the chronic form, and death usually terminates the 

 acute form in about two weeks. 



