Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2021)

Laboratory Exposures from an Unsuspected Case of Human Infection with Brucella canis

  • Jasmine Ahmed-Bentley,
  • Susan Roman,
  • Yazdan Mirzanejad,
  • Erin Fraser,
  • Linda Hoang,
  • Edward J. Young,
  • Muhammad Morshed,
  • Gregory Deans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2709.204701
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 9
pp. 2489 – 2491

Abstract

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We report a case of human infection with a Brucella canis isolate in an adult in Canada who was receiving a biologic immunomodulating medication. We detail subsequent investigations, which showed that 17 clinical microbiology staff had high-risk exposures to the isolate, 1 of whom had a positive result for B. canis.