Brucella bacteriophage

Studies on Bacteriophage and Metabolic Identification of Brucella Strains

Highly Sensitive Bacteriophage-Based Detection of Brucella abortus in Mixed Culture and Spiked Blood

For decades, bacteriophages (phages) have been used for Brucella species identification in the diagnosis and epidemiology of brucellosis. Traditional Brucella phage typing is a multi-day procedure including the isolation of a pure culture, a step that can take up to three weeks. In this study, we focused on the use of brucellaphages for sensitive detection of the pathogen in clinical and other ...

Brucella Infections

Brucella infection, also known as brucellosis, undulant fever, and Malta fever (in humans), or Bang’s disease (in cattle), is an acute systemic zoonotic disease caused by Brucella species.The disease is characterized in humans by either a continued, intermittent, or irregular fever that can persist for days, or for up to years if it is not properly treated Borbel (1997), Sauret and Vilissova (2...

Differentiation of Brucella abortus bv. 1, 2, and 4, Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis, and Brucella suis bv. 1 by PCR.

Several PCR assays which identify the genus Brucella but do not discriminate among species have been reported. We describe a PCR assay that comprises five oligonucleotide primers which can identify selected biovars of four species of Brucella. Individual biovars within a species are not differentiated. The assay can identify three biovars (1, 2, and 4) of B. abortus, all three biovars of B. mel...

Brucella Meningitis

A brucella bacterium is a coccobacillus ge-nus of Gram-negative, small, non-spore and the species that infect humans, and include: Brucella abortus, B melitensis, B. suis, and in rare cases B. canis (1). Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease in domestic and wild animals with humans as its accidental hosts (1). According to the WHO's report in 2003, most cases of brucellosis infection were from Syri...