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. 2018 Jun;24(6):1127-1129.
doi: 10.3201/eid2406.171887.

Brucella suis Infection in Dog Fed Raw Meat, the Netherlands

Marloes A M van Dijk, Marc Y Engelsma, Vanessa X N Visser, Marcel A H Spierenburg, Marjolijn E Holtslag, Peter T J Willemsen, Jaap A Wagenaar, Els M Broens, Hendrik I J Roest

Brucella suis Infection in Dog Fed Raw Meat, the Netherlands

Marloes A M van Dijk et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Jun.

Abstract

A Brucella suis biovar 1 infection was diagnosed in a dog without typical exposure risks, but the dog had been fed a raw meat-based diet (hare carcasses imported from Argentina). Track and trace investigations revealed that the most likely source of infection was the dog's raw meat diet.

Keywords: Brucella suis biovar 1; bacteria; brucellosis; dog; food safety; foodborne transmission; raw meat diet; the Netherlands; zoonoses.

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Maximum parsimony analysis on MLVA-16 (multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis) of genotypes from 2 recent Brucella suis biovar 1 isolates from the Netherlands (WBVR2016 from a dog and WBVR2017 from hare carcasses) in conjunction with B. suis biovar 1 strains of the highest similarity from a public database (http://microbesgenotyping.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/) with 521 entries of B. suis. NA, not available.
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