Brucella microti explained

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 4915^T (=BCCN 07-01^T =CAPM 6434^T).^[2] It is pathogenic.^[3]

Further reading

• Jimenez de Bagues. M. P.. de Martino. A.. Quintana. J. F.. Alcaraz. A.. Pardo. J.. Course of Infection with the Emergent Pathogen Brucella microti in Immunocompromised Mice. Infection and Immunity. 79. 10. 2011. 3934–3939. 0019-9567. 10.1128/IAI.05542-11. 21825066. 3187271.
• Scholz, Holger C., et al. "Isolation of Brucella microti from soil." Emerging infectious diseases 14.8 (2008): 1316.

External links

• LPSN
  • NOAA informative brochure
• Type strain of Brucella microti at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Audic S, Lescot M, Claverie JM, Scholz HC . Brucella microti: the genome sequence of an emerging pathogen . . 10 . 352 . 2009 . 19653890 . 2743711 . 10.1186/1471-2164-10-352 . free .
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.. Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58. 2. 2008. 375–382. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.65356-0. 18218934. free.
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. The New SpeciesBrucella microtiReplicates in Macrophages and Causes Death in Murine Models of Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 202. 1. 2010. 3–10. 0022-1899. 10.1086/653084. 20497040. free.