Brucella melitensis in Asian Badgers, Northwestern China

Brucella melitensis in Asian Badgers, Northwestern China

We isolated Brucella melitensis biovar 3 from the spleen of an Asian badger (Meles leucurus) in Nilka County, northwestern China. Our investigation showed that this isolate had a common multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis 16 genotype, similar to bacterial isolates from local aborted sh...

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Main Authors: Xiafei Liu, Meihua Yang, Shengnan Song, Gang Liu, Shanshan Zhao, Guangyuan Liu, Sándor Hornok, Yuanzhi Wang, Hai Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Brucella melitensis
bacteria
Asian badger
Meles leucurus
zoonoses
China
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-0833_article

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