"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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| 2012 | 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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Foster JT, Price LB, Beckstrom-Sternberg SM, Pearson T, Brown WD, Kiesling DM, Allen CA, Liu CM, Beckstrom-Sternberg J, Roberto FF, Keim P. Genotyping of Brucella species using clade specific SNPs. BMC Microbiol. 2012 Jun 19; 12:110.