Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2024)

Genomic Diversity and Zoonotic Potential of Brucella neotomae

  • Gilles Vergnaud,
  • Michel S. Zygmunt,
  • Roland T. Ashford,
  • Adrian M. Whatmore,
  • Axel Cloeckaert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3001.221783
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 1
pp. 155 – 158

Abstract

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After reports in 2017 of Brucella neotomae infections among humans in Costa Rica, we sequenced 12 strains isolated from rodents during 1955–1964 from Utah, USA. We observed an exact strain match between the human isolates and 1 Utah isolate. Independent confirmation is required to clarify B. neotomae zoonotic potential.

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