Brucella microti
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Brucella microti is a species of bacteria first isolated from the common vole, Microtus arvalis. Its genome has been sequenced.[1] It is Gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, and coccoid, with the type strain CCM 4915T (=BCCN 07-01T =CAPM 6434T).[2] It is pathogenic.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Audic S, Lescot M, Claverie JM, Scholz HC (2009). "Brucella microti: the genome sequence of an emerging pathogen". BMC Genomics. 10: 352. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-352. PMC 2743711. PMID 19653890.
- ^ Scholz, H. C.; Hubalek, Z.; Sedlacek, I.; Vergnaud, G.; Tomaso, H.; Al Dahouk, S.; Melzer, F.; Kampfer, P.; Neubauer, H.; Cloeckaert, A.; Maquart, M.; Zygmunt, M. S.; Whatmore, A. M.; Falsen, E.; Bahn, P.; Gollner, C.; Pfeffer, M.; Huber, B.; Busse, H.-J.; Nockler, K. (2008). "Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (2): 375–382. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65356-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 18218934.
- ^ Jiménez de Bagüés, María P.; Ouahrani-Bettache, Safia; Quintana, Juan F.; Mitjana, Olga; Hanna, Nabil; Bessoles, Stéphanie; Sanchez, Françoise; Scholz, Holger C.; Lafont, Virginie; Köhler, Stephan; Occhialini, Alessandra (2010). "The New SpeciesBrucella microtiReplicates in Macrophages and Causes Death in Murine Models of Infection". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 202 (1): 3–10. doi:10.1086/653084. ISSN 0022-1899. PMID 20497040.
Further reading
[edit]- Jimenez de Bagues, M. P.; de Martino, A.; Quintana, J. F.; Alcaraz, A.; Pardo, J. (2011). "Course of Infection with the Emergent Pathogen Brucella microti in Immunocompromised Mice". Infection and Immunity. 79 (10): 3934–3939. doi:10.1128/IAI.05542-11. ISSN 0019-9567. PMC 3187271. PMID 21825066.
- Scholz, Holger C., et al. "Isolation of Brucella microti from soil." Emerging infectious diseases 14.8 (2008): 1316.
External links
[edit]- LPSN
- "Brucella microti". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- NOAA informative brochure
- Type strain of Brucella microti at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase