The Retrospective on Atypical Brucella Species Leads to Novel Definitions.

ABSTRACT: The genus Brucella currently comprises twelve species of facultative intracellular bacteria with variable zoonotic potential. Six of them have been considered as classical, causing brucellosis in terrestrial mammalian hosts, with two species originated from marine mammals. In the past fifteen years, field research as well as improved pathogen detection and typing have allowed the identification of four new species, namely Brucella microti, Brucella inopinata, Brucella papionis, Brucella vulpis, and of numerous strains, isolated from a wide range of hosts, including for the first time cold-blooded animals. While their genome sequences are still highly similar to those of classical strains, some of them are characterized by atypical phenotypes such as highe

SUBMITTER: Occhialini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9025488 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature