22954-2

Brucella suis rRNA [Presence] in Specimen by Probe

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LP16674-1   Brucella suis
A species of gram-negative bacteria, primarily infecting SWINE, but it can also infect humans, DOGS, and HARES. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006

LP16674-1   Brucella suis
Brucella suis is the causative agent of swine brucellosis, a zoonosis affecting pigs. The disease typically causes chronic inflammatory lesions in the reproductive organs of susceptible animals or orchitis and may even affect joints and other organs. The most common symptom is abortion in pregnant susceptible hosts at any stage of gestation. Other manifestations are temporary or permanent sterility, lameness, posterior paralysis, spondylitis, and abscess formation. It is transmitted mainly by ingestion of infected tissues or fluids, semen during breeding, and suckling infected animals. In humans, it can cause undulant fever.

Since brucellosis threatens food supply and cause undulant fever, Brucella suis and other Brucella species (B. melitensis, B. abortis, B. ovis, B. canis) are recognized as potential agricultural, civilian, and military bioterrorism agents.

B. suis are gram-negative, facultative intracellular coccobacilli and therefore are capable of growing and reproducing inside of host cells, specifically phagocytic cells. They are also non-spore-forming, non-capsulated, and non-motile.

Brucella suis are differentiated into five biovars (strains), where bv. 1-3 infect boars and pigs and bv.1 and 3 may cause severe diseases in humans.In contrast, bv. 2 found in wild boars in Europe show mild or no clinical signs and cannot infect healthy humans, but do infect pigs and hares. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Wikipedia

LP20003-7   Brucella
A genus of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria that causes BRUCELLOSIS. Its cells are nonmotile coccobacilli and are animal parasites and pathogens. The bacterium is transmissible to humans through contact with infected dairy products or tissue. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006

Fully-Specified Name

Component

Brucella suis rRNA

Property

PrThr

Time

Pt

System

XXX

Scale

Ord

Method

Probe

Additional Names

Short Name

B suis rRNA Spec Ql Probe

Display Name

B. suis rRNA Probe Ql (Specimen)

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Brucella suis, Specimen

Basic Attributes

Class

MICRO

Type

Laboratory

First Released

Version 1.0n

Last Updated

Version 2.69

Change Reason

The PrThr property is used for LOINC terms whose results are reported using an ordered categorical scale, regardless of whether or not an internal threshold was used to make that determination. This change was approved by the Laboratory LOINC Committee in June 2016. In the Short Name 'Prb' was changed to 'Probe' for clarity.

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Both

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Related Names

• B suis
• Bruc
• Brucellosis
• DNA NUCLEIC ACID PROBE
• DNA probe
• ID
• Infectious Disease
• InfectiousDisease
• Microbiology
• Misc
• Miscellaneous
• Ordinal
• Other
• Point in time
• PR
• QL
• Qual
• Qualitative
• Random
• ribosomal RNA
• Screen
• Spec
• To be specified in another part of the message
• Unspecified

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