human brucellosis: an overview

Human brucellosis: An overview

Human brucellosis: An overview

Brucellosis is a common zoonotic infection caused by bacterial genus brucella. Brucellosis is an old disease known by various names including undulant fever or Mediterranean fever. This is one of the infectious diseases transmissible between animals and humans. Brucella bacteria multiply inside the body in some ways like swallowing, breathing, contact between damaged skin and slinked fetus or a...

Brucellosis: an overview.

Brucellosis remains a major zoonosis worldwide. Although many countries have eradicated Brucella abortus from cattle, in some areas Brucella melitensis has emerged as a cause of infection in this species as well as in sheep and goats. Despite vaccination campaigns with the Rev 1 strain, B. melitensis remains the principal cause of human brucellosis. Brucella suis is also emerging as an agent of...

Brucellosis Vaccines: An Overview

Brucella is ┙-Proteobacteria causing an infectious disease in mammals that could be transmitted to humans. Ruminant and swine are prone to be infected by such microorganism all over the world, thus acting as a potential reservoir for domestic livestock and therefore, affecting humans. Brucella species differ in their hosts’ preference, physiological abilities and cell surface structural charact...

human brucellosis

Human brucellosis

Dear Editor, The recent report on “human brucellosis” is very interesting (1). Indeed, brucellosis is a zoonosis. As noted by Roushan et al., this disease can be seen in “the Mediterranean areas, the south and the center of America, Africa, Asia, Arab peninsula, Indian subcontinent and the Middle East (1).” Mir et al. noted that this infection should be included in the list of differential diag...