Bacteria in the genus Brucella are important human and veterinary pathogens. The abortion
and infertility they cause in food animals produce economic hardships in areas where the …

Brucella is an intracellular bacterium that causes abortion, reproduction failure in livestock
and leads to a debilitating flu-like illness with serious chronic complications if untreated in …

Remarkable genetic diversity and breadth of host species has been uncovered in the
Brucella genus over the past decade, fundamentally changing our concept of what it means …

Brucellosis is a serious infectious disease which causes great direct and indirect economic
loses for animal holders worldwide such as the reduction of milk and meat production …

The genus Brucella, described by Meyer and Shaw in 1920, comprises bacterial pathogens
of veterinary and public health relevance. For 36 years, the genus came to include three …

Brucella organisms are responsible for one of the most widespread bacterial zoonoses,
named brucellosis. The disease affects several species of animals, including humans. One …

Twenty-one small Gram-negative motile coccobacilli were isolated from 15 systemically
diseased African bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus edulis), and were initially identified as …

Brucella are highly infectious bacterial pathogens responsible for a severely debilitating
zoonosis called brucellosis. Half of the human population worldwide is considered to live at …

The genus Brucella currently comprises twelve species of facultative intracellular bacteria
with variable zoonotic potential. Six of them have been considered as classical, causing …

Previous studies have shown the usefulness of MLVA16 as a rapid molecular identification
and classification method for Brucella species and biovars including recently described …