Brucellosis is not a sustainable disease in humans. The source of human infection always resides in domestic or wild animal reservoirs. The routes of infection are multiple: food-borne, occupational or recreational, linked to travel and even to bioterrorism. New Brucella strains or species may emerge and existing Brucella species adapt to changing social, cultural, travel and agricultural envir...

UNLABELLED Isolation of slowly growing and fastidious Brucella spp strains from clinical specimens is difficult, because of varying factors, including species specificities, stadium of disease, and previous antibiotic treatment of the patients. The use of automated blood culture systems has overcome some cultivation problems. The automated identification system such as VITEK 2 compact allows mo...

brucella melitensis and brucella abortus are of the most important causes of brucellosis, an infectious disease which is transmitted either directly or indirectly including consuming unpasteurized dairy products. both strains are considered endemic in iran. common diagnostic methods such as bacteriologic cultures are difficult and time consuming regarding the bacteria. the aim of this study was...

To investigate the epidemiological relationship of isolates from different Portuguese geographical regions and to assess the diversity among isolates, the MLVA16(Orsay) assay (panels 1, 2A and 2B) was performed with a collection of 126 Brucella melitensis (46 human and 80 animal isolates) and 157 B. abortus field isolates, seven vaccine strains and the representative reference strains of each s...

Brucellosis remains an endemic zoonotic disease in many developing countries, causing great harm to public health and devastating losses livestock. One of the main reasons for low effectiveness anti-brucellosis measures is lack reliable methods diagnosing infected animals throughout their lifespan. Classical serological tests, such as tube agglutination test, rose Bengal plate complement fixati...

Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental issues, causing severe damage. It vital importance to find an efficient and eco-friendly approach biodegrading plastics. The aim this study was isolate characterize different bacterial isolates from water samples in Al-Ahsa region Saudi Arabia. ability degrade low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic evaluated using multiple approaches, ...

Ochrobactrum and Brucella are closely related bacteria that populate different habitats and differ in their pathogenic properties. Only little is known about mobile genetic elements in these genera which might be important for survival and virulence. Previous studies on Brucella lysogeny indicated that active phages are rare in this genus. To gain insight into the presence and nature of prophag...

Brucella species are important etiological agents of zoonotic diseases. Attenuated Salmonella strains expressing Brucella abortus BCSP31, Omp3b and superoxide dismutase proteins were tested as vaccine candidates in this study. In order to determine the optimal dose for intraperitoneal (IP) inoculation required to obtain effective protection against brucellosis, mice were immunized with various ...

Baker, Phillip J. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and J. B. Wilson. Chemical composition and biological properties of the endotoxin of Brucella abortus. J. Bacteriol. 90:895-902. 1965.-The ability of endotoxin to induce hypoferremia in mice was used to measure the specific activity of various endotoxin preparations of Escherichia coli and Brucella abortus and to determine the endotoxin cont...