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Brucella abortus is Prevalent in Both Humans and Animals in Bangladesh
- Source :
- Zoonoses and Public Health. 64:394-399
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- To determine the role of different Brucella (B.) spp. in Bangladesh, 62 animal samples and 500 human sera were tested. Animal samples from cattle, goats and sheep (including milk, bull semen, vaginal swabs and placentas) were cultured for Brucella spp. Three test-positive human sera and all animal samples were screened by Brucella genus-specific real-time PCR (RT-PCR), and positive samples were then tested by IS711 RT-PCR to detect B. abortus and B. melitensis DNA. Only B. abortus DNA was amplified from 13 human and six animal samples. This is the first report describing B. abortus as the aetiological agent of brucellosis in occupationally exposed humans in Bangladesh. Of note is failure to detect B. melitensis DNA, the species most often associated with human brucellosis worldwide. Further studies are required to explore the occurrence of Brucella melitensis in Bangladesh.
- Subjects :
- DNA, Bacterial
0301 basic medicine
Epidemiology
030106 microbiology
Brucella abortus
Brucella
Brucellosis
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Animals
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Human brucellosis
Bangladesh
General Veterinary
General Immunology and Microbiology
biology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
bacterial infections and mycoses
medicine.disease
Bull semen
biology.organism_classification
Infectious Diseases
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
Vaginal swabs
Brucella melitensis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18631959
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Zoonoses and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f9de075eefd5a80b14108acd8da4ca01