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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

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

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Part Display Name
Brucella suis
Part Type
Component (Describes the core component or analyte measured)
Created On
2000-05-04
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B suis

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zh-CN Chinese (China) 猪种布鲁氏菌
Synonyms: 猪布鲁菌
fr-CA French (Canada) Brucella suis
et-EE Estonian (Estonia) Brucella suis
es-ES Spanish (Spain) Brucella suis
it-IT Italian (Italy) Brucella suis
tr-TR Turkish (Turkey) Brucella suis
ru-RU Russian (Russian Federation) Brucella suis
nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands) Brucella suis
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pl-PL Polish (Poland) Brucella suis
Synonyms: Brucella suis