"Brucella melitensis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of the genus BRUCELLA whose natural hosts are sheep and goats. Other mammals, including humans, may be infected. In general, these organisms tend to be more virulent for laboratory animals than BRUCELLA ABORTUS and may cause fatal infections.
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D017347
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MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.425.215.500.500 B03.660.050.070.100.500
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2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brucella melitensis" by people in Profiles.
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Outbreak of Brucella melitensis infection in Eastern Sicily: risk factors, clinical characteristics and complication rate. New Microbiol. 2019 Jan; 42(1):43-48.
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Case Report: Visceral Leishmaniasis with Salmonella Paratyphi and Brucella melitensis Coinfection as a Cause of Persistent Fever in a Patient from Sudan. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 11; 99(5):1150-1152.
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The Brief Case: Misidentification of Brucella melitensis as Ochrobactrum anthropi by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). J Clin Microbiol. 2018 06; 56(6).
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Answer to February 2018 Photo Quiz. J Clin Microbiol. 2018 02; 56(2).
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Human Brucella melitensis infections in southern Vietnam. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017 Nov; 23(11):788-790.
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Mucosal bacterial dissemination in a rhesus macaque model of experimental brucellosis. J Med Primatol. 2018 02; 47(1):75-77.
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Hospital-associated transmission of Brucella melitensis outside the laboratory. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Jan; 21(1):150-2.
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Molecular epidemiology of Brucella genotypes in patients at a major hospital in central Peru. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Oct; 47(10):3147-55.