Brucellosis

Infectious Agent

Brucella spp., the causative agents for brucellosis, are facultative, intracellular, gram-negative coccobacilli. The main Brucella spp. known to cause human disease are Brucella abortus (including the livestock vaccine strain Brucella abortus RB51), B. melitensis, B. suis , and B. canis .

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