Bacterial Pathogens

Disease

Symptoms

Yersinia pestis

Pneumonic Plague

Acute: high fever, headache, productive cough blood-tinged sputum, vomiting. Hematogenous dissemination: sepsis, shock, meningitis

Bacillus anthracis

Inhalation Anthrax

Nonspecific symptoms of fatigue, myalgia, fever, nonproductive cough, followed by chest pain, respiratory distress, high fever, pneumonia. Other forms: Intest/Cutan Anthrax (not as BW-Agents)

Brucella suis

Brucellosis

Nonspecific: Fever, malaise, body aches, sweats, muscle and joint aches. Hepato-/splenomegaly

Francisella tularensis

Tularemia (Rabbit Fever)

Fever, chills, headache, myalgia, abdominal pain vomiting, diarrhea. Chest pain, pneumonia, cutaneous ulcer. Enlarged lymph nodes.

Coxiella burnetii

Q-Fever

Extremely infectious, no characteristic illness: severe headache, back pain, fatigue, weight loss

Burkholderia mallei  Burkholderia pseudomallei

Glanders  melioidosis

Severe sickness, fever, rigors, pulmonary distress abscesses of internal organs (e.g. liver and spleen)