Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2017)

Brucella neotomae Infection in Humans, Costa Rica

  • Marcela Suárez-Esquivel,
  • Nazareth Ruiz-Villalobos,
  • César Jiménez-Rojas,
  • Elías Barquero-Calvo,
  • Carlos Chacón-Díaz,
  • Eunice Víquez-Ruiz,
  • Norman Rojas-Campos,
  • Kate S. Baker,
  • Gerardo Oviedo-Sánchez,
  • Ernesto Amuy,
  • Esteban Chaves-Olarte,
  • Nicholas R. Thomson,
  • Edgardo Moreno,
  • Caterina Guzmán-Verri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.162018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 6
pp. 997 – 1000

Abstract

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Several species of Brucella are known to be zoonotic, but B. neotomae infection has been thought to be limited to wood rats. In 2008 and 2011, however, B. neotomae was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of 2 men with neurobrucellosis. The nonzoonotic status of B. neotomae should be reassessed.

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