article_snippet: Burkholderia pseudomallei can cause a potentially serious disease in people and animals called melioidosis.
article_snippet: Melioidosis commonly involves the lungs and has a wide range of symptoms including fever, headache, loss of appetite, muscle and joint pain.
article_snippet: It is often mistaken as pneumonia or tuberculosis.
article_snippet: If the disease is left untreated the disease is fatal.
highlights_snippet: Burkholderia pseudomallei causes potentially fatal infectious disease .
  