MLVA Genotyping of Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus Isolates from Different Animal Species and Humans and Identification of Brucella suis Vaccine Strain S2 from Cattle in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Hai ^a   Wang, Heng ^b   Xu, Liqing ^c   Hu, Guiying ^c   Ma, Junying ^c   Xiao, Pei ^a   Fan, Weixing ^d   Di, Dongdong ^d   Tian, Guozhong ^a   Fan, Mengguang ^e   Mi, Jingchuan ^e   Yu, Ruiping ^e   Song, Litao ^e   Zhao, Hongyan ^a   Piao, Dongri ^a   Cui, Buyun ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

^d AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^e Inner Mongolia Center of Endemic Disease Control and Research   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUCELLA VACCINE;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEVER; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MONGOLIA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OLIGOPHRENIA; PSEUDOIS NAYAUR; SHEEP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLA VACCINE; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHINA; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84885083496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076332     Document Type: Article

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