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BRUCELLA SUIS
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Brucella |
| Species: | Brucella suis |
| Description: | B. suis is a Gram-negative bacterium. It measures about 06 to 1.5 μm by 0.5 to 0.7μm 2. Because it can not produce sspore and lacks capsule or flagella, B. suis are non-motile. The outer membranes contain a dominant lipopolysaccharide (LPS) component and three main groups of proteins |
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| Source: | NA |
| Pathogenicity: | Brucellosis causes abortions in other animals; however, in humans, it causes a variety of symptoms, such as fever, anorexia, asthenia, fatigue, arthralgias, spine and joint pain. Although the bacteria rarely attacks the nervous system, neuropsychiatric symptoms such as headache and depression are often observed |
| Genbank: | AM158980. (16S rRNA gene) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.31 |
| GC %: | 57.2 |
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| Reference: | Al-Nassir, Wafa, MD; Lisgaris, Michelle V, MD; Salata, Robert A, MD: Brucellosis, Emedicine, http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic248.htm &Alton, G.G.; Frosyth, J.R.L.: Brucella. http://www.gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch028.htm |
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