Brucella melitensis

Brucella melitensis
	B. melitensis culture
Systematics
Department :	Proteobacteria
Class :	Alpha Proteobacteria
Order :	Rhizobiales
Family :	Brucellaceae
Genre :	Brucella
Type :	Brucella melitensis
Scientific name
	Brucella melitensis
	(Hughes 1893) Meyer & Shaw 1920

Brucella melitensis (from Melita , personification of Malta ) is a bacterium from the genus Brucella and causative agent of sheep and goat brucellosis , which is a notifiable animal disease in Germany. The pathogen can also occur in humans (→ Malta fever ) as well as in dogs (→ dog brucellosis ) and pigs (→ swine brucellosis ). Due to the genetic similarity of the representatives of the genus Brucella , all were assigned to the species B. melitensis in 1988. However, this system was repealed in 2005.

B. melitensis is gram-negative , aerobic, capnophilic, immobile, catalase and urease positive. In the Ziehl-Neelsen staining , the bacterium turns red.

Web links

Type strain of Brucella melitensis at Bac Dive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

literature

PJ Quinn et al .: Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease . John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition 2011, ISBN 9781118251164 .
GG Alton: Brucella melitensis . In: Klaus Nielsen, J. Robert Duncan: Animal Brucellosis . CRC Press 1990, ISBN 9780849358784 , pp. 383-410.