"Brucella melitensis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of the genus BRUCELLA whose natural hosts are sheep and goats. Other mammals, including humans, may be infected. In general, these organisms tend to be more virulent for laboratory animals than BRUCELLA ABORTUS and may cause fatal infections.
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D017347
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.425.215.500.500 B03.660.050.070.100.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brucella melitensis" by people in Profiles.
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Overexpression of wbkF gene in Brucella abortus RB51WboA leads to increased O-polysaccharide expression and enhanced vaccine efficacy against B. abortus 2308, B. melitensis 16M, and B. suis 1330 in a murine brucellosis model. PLoS One. 2019; 14(3):e0213587.
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Immunotherapeutics to prevent the replication of Brucella in a treatment failure mouse model. Vaccine. 2014 Feb 12; 32(8):918-23.
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Pathogenic brucellae replicate in human trophoblasts. J Infect Dis. 2013 Apr; 207(7):1075-83.
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Pluronic P85 enhances the efficacy of outer membrane vesicles as a subunit vaccine against Brucella melitensis challenge in mice. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2012 Dec; 66(3):436-44.
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The genome sequence of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jan 08; 99(1):443-8.