Ann Lab Med.  2016 Jul;36(4):390-392. 10.3343/alm.2016.36.4.390.

First Case of Human Brucellosis Caused by Brucella melitensis in Korea

• Kim HN
• Hur M
• Moon HW
• Shim HS
• Kim H
• Ji M
• Yun YM
• Kim SY
• Um J
• Lee YS
• Hwang SD

• KMID: 2373565
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2016.36.4.390

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use
Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
Brucella melitensis/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification
Brucellosis/*diagnosis/drug therapy/microbiology
Doxycycline/therapeutic use
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Republic of Korea
Rifampin/therapeutic use
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Spondylitis/diagnostic imaging
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacterial Proteins
Doxycycline
Rifampin

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Average nucleotide identity tree of Brucella melitensis. The genome tree was constructed by using BM2015 (the isolate) and related Brucella spp.

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