The first effective Brucella vaccine was based on live Brucella abortus strain 19, a laboratory-
derived strain attenuated by an unknown process during subculture. This induces …

Brucellosis caused by Brucella spp. is a major zoonotic disease. Control of brucellosis in
agricultural animals is a prerequisite for the prevention of this disease in human beings …

Emerging and re-emerging bacterial infections are a serious threat to human and animal
health. Extracellular bacteria are free-living, while facultative intracellular bacteria replicate …

Iron acquisition from the host is an important step in the pathogenic process. While Yersinia
pestis has multiple iron transporters, the yersiniabactin (Ybt) siderophore-dependent system …

ABSTRACT Interleukin-12 (IL-12), a heterodimeric cytokine, plays an important role in
cellular immunity to several bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections and has adjuvant activity …

Zoonotic transmission of brucellosis often results from exposure to Brucella-infected
livestock, feral animals, or wildlife or frequently via consumption of unpasteurized milk …

The revised Third Edition of The Prokaryotes, acclaimed as a classic reference in the field,
offers new and updated articles by experts from around the world on taxa of relevance to …

Expression of the virB operon, encoding the type IV secretion system required for Brucella
suis virulence, occurred in the acidic phagocytic vacuoles of macrophages and could be …

The present study had the aim of assessing the cytokine response and selected
clinicopathological findings associated with brucellosis in camels (Camelus dromedarius) …

Brucella abortus 2308 derivatives with mini-Tn 5 insertions in purE, purL, and purD display
significant attenuation in the BALB/c mouse model, while isogenic mutants with mini-Tn 5 …