BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE - USA (04): (TEXAS)

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Date: Mon 21 Mar 2011
From: Randall Levings [edited]


[re: ProMED-mail Brucellosis, bovine - USA (03): (TX) 20110320.0881]
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Responding on behalf of USDA-APHIS [US Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service] Veterinary Services: Thank
you for referencing the information in the TAHC posting. Additional
information your subscribers might find useful:

Culture and genotyping at the USDA's National Veterinary Services
Laboratories (NVSL) have confirmed the isolates in this case to be
_Brucella abortus_, biovar 1, and to have a variable number tandem
repeat (VNTR)/multiple loci VNTR analysis (MLVA) profile not shared by
other isolates in the NVSL database.

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Randall Levings


[We are grateful to Dr Levings for responding with information that
is very helpful. - Mod.TG]

[see also:
Brucellosis, bovine - USA (03): (TX) 20110320.0881
Brucellosis, bovine - USA (02): (TX) 20110316.0834
2009
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Brucellosis, swine hunters - USA (02): (TX) hunters 20090920.3303
2008
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Brucellosis, bovine - USA (TX): not 20080202.0427
2003
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Brucellosis, cattle - USA (Texas) 20031002.2479
2000
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Brucellosis, goats - USA (Texas) 20000216.0208
1999
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Brucellosis, goats - USA (Texas) 19991213.2157]
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