Causes glanders and pneumonia. Burkholderia mallei ATCC 23344

Burkholderia mallei strain ATCC 23344. This type strain (ATCC 23344; NBL 7; China 7; 3873; EY 2233; RH627) came from a Chinese patient in Burma who had glanders in 1944. The genome of this organism carries a large number of insertion sequences as compared to the related Bukholderia pseudomallei, and a large number of simple sequence repeats that may function in antigenic variation of cell surface proteins.