RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A primary bacterial infectious disease that results in septicemic infection, has_material_basis_in Burkholderia mallei, which is transmitted by contact with tissues or body fluids of infected animals, or through mucosal surfaces such as the eyes and nose. The infection has symptom fever, has symptom chills, has symptom sweating, has symptom muscle aches, has symptom chest pain, has symptom muscle tightness, has symptom headache, has symptom mucopurulent nasal discharge, and has symptom nodular lesions in the lungs. (DO)