True about causative agent of MALTA FEVER is:
Gram-positive, motile, nonspore-forming, rod-shaped (coccobacilli) bacteria Patients present with undulant fevers, sweating (often with characteristic foul, moldy smell sometimes likened to wet hay), and migratory ahralgia and myalgia A nasopharyngeal or an oropharynx swab is sent to the bacteriology laboratory for Gram stain. Treated by macrolides