Genomic analysis of Brucella Ovis in Italy reveals high genetic diversity and a novel lineage.

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BACKGROUND: Brucella ovis, the causative agent of ovine brucellosis, poses an underestimated threat to sheep farming worldwide due to its impact on reproductive health and flock productivity. Although B. ovis is non-zoonotic, the disease is globally distributed and often excluded from mandatory control programs, especially in Europe, resulting in scarce prevalence data and limited genomic information that hinder...

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• Brucellosis
• Genome, Bacterial
• Italy
• Minisatellite Repeats
• Multilocus Sequence Typing