Brucella spp. distribution, hosting ruminants from Greece, applying various molecular identification techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Brucellosis still remains an endemic disease for both livestock and human in Greece, influencing the primary sector and national economy in general. Although farm animals and particularly ruminants constitute the natural hosts of the disease, transmission to humans is not uncommon, thus representing a serious occupational disease as well. Under this prism, knowledge concerning Brucella species distribution in ruminants is considered a high priority. There are various molecular methodologies for Brucella detection with however differential discriminant capacity. Hence, the aim of this survey was to achieve nationally Brucella epidemiology baseline genotyping data at species and subtype level, as well as to evaluate the pros and cons of different molecular techniques utili

SUBMITTER: Katsiolis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9137169 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature