Identification of Source of Brucella suis Infection in Human by Using Whole-Genome Sequencing, United States and Tonga. - PubMed - NCBI

Identification of Source of Brucella suis Infection in Human by Using Whole-Genome Sequencing, United States and Tonga. - PubMed - NCBI

Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Jan;22(1):79-82. doi: 10.3201/eid2201.150843.

Identification of Source of Brucella suis Infection in Human by Using Whole-Genome Sequencing, United States and Tonga.

Quance C, Robbe-Austerman S, Stuber T, Brignole T, DeBess EE, Boyd L, LeaMaster B, Tiller R, Draper J, Humphrey S, Erdman MM.

Abstract

Brucella suis infection was diagnosed in a man from Tonga, Polynesia, who had butchered swine in Oregon, USA. Although the US commercial swine herd is designated brucellosis-free, exposure history suggested infection from commercial pigs. We used whole-genome sequencing to determine that the man was infected in Tonga, averting a field investigation.

KEYWORDS:

Brucella suis; One Health; Oregon; Polynesia; Tonga; United States; boar; brucellosis; genomic epidemiology; whole-genome sequencing; zoonoses

PMID:

 

26689610

 

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PMCID:

 

PMC4696693

 

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