Emergence of a clonal lineage of Brucella abortus biovar 3 in clinical cases in Spain

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2687-2688

  Valdezate, Sylvia ^a   Navarro, Ana ^a   Rubio, Virginia ^a   Garin Bastuji, Bruno ^b   Albert, David ^b   Hernandez, Purificación ^c   Alonso, Pilar M ^d   Saéz Nieto, Juan A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c Extremadura Health Service   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL XERAL CALDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; FUCHSINE; PROTEIN PARC; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; THIONINE;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOTYPE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS;

EID: 68549096030     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00756-09     Document Type: Letter

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