Brucella neotomae Infection in Humans, Costa Rica.
Marcela
Suárez-Esquivel
;
Nazareth
Ruiz-Villalobos
;
César
Jiménez-Rojas
;
Elías
Barquero-Calvo
;
Carlos
Chacón-Díaz
;
Eunice
Víquez-Ruiz
;
Norman
Rojas-Campos
;
Kate S
Baker
;
Gerardo
Oviedo-Sánchez
;
Ernesto
Amuy
;
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Esteban
Chaves-Olarte
;
Nicholas R
Thomson
;
Edgardo
Moreno
;
Caterina
Guzmán-Verri
;
(2017)
Brucella neotomae Infection in Humans, Costa Rica.
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 23 (6).
pp. 997-1000.
ISSN 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid2306.162018
Several species of Brucella are known to be zoonotic, but B. neotomae infection has been thought to be limited to wood rats. In 2008 and 2011, however, B. neotomae was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of 2 men with neurobrucellosis. The nonzoonotic status of B. neotomae should be reassessed.
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Date Deposited | 15 Jan 2019 13:09 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4432-8505