Uncovering the Hidden Credentials of Brucella Virulence

RM Roop, IS Barton, D Hopersberger… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

Emerging diversity and ongoing expansion of the genus Brucella

AM Whatmore, JT Foster - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Brucella papionis sp. nov., isolated from baboons (Papio spp.)

AM Whatmore, N Davison… - … of systematic and …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
Two Gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming coccoid bacteria (strains F8/08-60T and
F8/08-61) isolated from clinical specimens obtained from baboons (Papio spp.) that had …

Extended Multilocus Sequence Analysis to Describe the Global Population Structure of the Genus Brucella: Phylogeography and Relationship to Biovars

AM Whatmore, MS Koylass, J Muchowski… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
An extended multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) scheme applicable to the Brucella, an
expanding genus that includes zoonotic pathogens that severely impact animal and human …

Pathogenicity and Its Implications in Taxonomy: The Brucella and Ochrobactrum Case

E Moreno, JM Blasco, JJ Letesson, JP Gorvel… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
The intracellular pathogens of the genus Brucella are phylogenetically close to
Ochrobactrum, a diverse group of free-living bacteria with a few species occasionally …

Recent developments in detection and enumeration of waterborne bacteria: a retrospective minireview

RA Deshmukh, K Joshi, S Bhand, U Roy - MicrobiologyOpen, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Waterborne diseases have emerged as global health problems and their rapid and sensitive
detection in environmental water samples is of great importance. Bacterial identification and …

The one hundred year journey of the genus Brucella (Meyer and Shaw 1920)

E Moreno - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Molecular methods for pathogenic bacteria detection and recent advances in wastewater analysis

S Zhang, X Li, J Wu, L Coin, J O'brien, F Hai, G Jiang - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
With increasing concerns about public health and the development of molecular techniques,
new detection tools and the combination of existing approaches have increased the abilities …

Comparative phylogenomics and evolution of the Brucellae reveal a path to virulence

AR Wattam, JT Foster, SP Mane… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Brucella species include important zoonotic pathogens that have a substantial impact on
both agriculture and human health throughout the world. Brucellae are thought of as “stealth …

A review of the basis of the immunological diagnosis of ruminant brucellosis

MJ Ducrotoy, R Conde-Álvarez, JM Blasco… - Veterinary immunology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Bacteria of the genus Brucella cause brucellosis, the most common bacterial zoonosis
worldwide. The diagnosis of Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis ruminant brucellosis is …