1) Can be used as a bioweapon 2) Coccobacillus
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B. canis B. ceti B. inopinata B. melitensis B. microti B. neotomae B. ovis B. pinnipedialis Brucella is the cause of brucellosis, which is a zoonosis. It is transmitted by ingesting contaminated food (such as unpasteurized milk products), direct contact with an infected animal, or inhalation of aerosols. Transmission from human to human, for examp...
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(from the article `brucellosis`) ...aches, all of which resolve within three to six months. The disease is named after the British army physician David Bruce, who in 1887 first ...
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A genus of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria that causes brucellosis. Its cells are nonmotile coccobacilli and are animal parasites and pathogens. The bacterium is transmissible to humans through contact with infected dairy products or tissue. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(broo-sel´ә) a genus of gram-negative, aerobic, nonmotile cocci or rod-shaped bacteria, the etiologic agent of brucellosis. B. abor´tus, which causes infectious abortion in cattle, is the most common cause of infection in humans; other species pathogenic for humans are B. meliten´sis, found in goats and sheep, and...
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(broo-sel´ә) any member of the genus Brucella. adj., brucel´lar., adj.
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Genus of Gram negative aerobic bacteria which occur as intracellular parasites or pathogens in man and other animals. Brucella abortus is responsible for spontaneous abortion in cattle and causes undulent fever (brucellosis), a persistent recurrent acute fever, in man,.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: brū-sel′lă Definitions: 1. A genus of encapsulated, nonmotile bacteria (family Brucellaceae) containing short, rod-shaped to coccoid, gram-negative cells. These organisms do not produce gas from carbohydrates and are parasitic. They invade all animal tissues and infect the genital organs, the mammary gland,...
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Brucella is a genus of bacteria which causes contagious abortion in cattle, sheep and pigs and undulant fever in man.
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noun an aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus that causes brucellosis; can be used as a bioweapon
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any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Brucella, certain species of which, as B. melitensis, are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
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