Brucella microti

Brucella microti is a species of bacteria first isolated from the common vole, Microtus arvalis. Its genome has been sequenced.[1] It is Gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, and coccoid, with the type strain CCM 4915T (=BCCN 07-01T =CAPM 6434T).[2] It is pathogenic.[3]

Brucella microti
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Hyphomicrobiales
Family:
Brucellaceae
Genus:
Brucella
Species:
B. microti

Scholz et al. 2008
Binomial name
Brucella microti

References
  1. Audic S, Lescot M, Claverie JM, Scholz HC (2009). "Brucella microti: the genome sequence of an emerging pathogen". BMC Genomics. 10: 352. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-352. PMC 2743711. PMID 19653890.
  2. Scholz, H. C.; Hubalek, Z.; Sedlacek, I.; Vergnaud, G.; Tomaso, H.; Al Dahouk, S.; Melzer, F.; Kampfer, P.; Neubauer, H.; Cloeckaert, A.; Maquart, M.; Zygmunt, M. S.; Whatmore, A. M.; Falsen, E.; Bahn, P.; Gollner, C.; Pfeffer, M.; Huber, B.; Busse, H.-J.; Nockler, K. (2008). "Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (2): 375–382. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65356-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 18218934.
  3. Jiménez de Bagüés, María P.; Ouahrani‐Bettache, Safia; Quintana, Juan F.; Mitjana, Olga; Hanna, Nabil; Bessoles, Stéphanie; Sanchez, Françoise; Scholz, Holger C.; Lafont, Virginie; Köhler, Stephan; Occhialini, Alessandra (2010). "The New SpeciesBrucella microtiReplicates in Macrophages and Causes Death in Murine Models of Infection". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 202 (1): 3–10. doi:10.1086/653084. ISSN 0022-1899. PMID 20497040.

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