The Change of a Medically Important Genus: Worldwide Occurrence of Genetically Diverse Novel Brucella Species in Exotic Frogs.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0168872

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The Change of a Medically Important Genus: Worldwide Occurrence of Genetically Diverse Novel Brucella Species in Exotic Frogs.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2016

Scholz Holger C, Mühldorfer Kristin, Shilton Cathy, Benedict Suresh, Whatmore Adrian M, Blom Jochen, Eisenberg Tobias

Abstract excerpt

The genus Brucella comprises various species of both veterinary and human medical importance. All species are genetically highly related to each other, sharing intra-species average nucleotide identities (ANI) of > 99%. Infections occur among various warm-blooded animal species, marine mammals, and humans. Until recently, amphibians had not been recognized as a host for Brucella. In this study, however, we show...

Topics

Animals
Anura
Australia
Brucella
Brucellosis
DNA, Bacterial
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Genetic Variation
Humans
Ochrobactrum
Phylogeny
Rodentia
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID: 28036367
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168872
PMCID: PMC5201264

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