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Srinivasa Nithin Gopalsamy, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, Atlanta, GA 30303. Email: sgopals@emory.edu

Srinivasa Nithin Gopalsamy, MD—drafting manuscript, producing table and figure. Aditi Ramakrishnan, MD—drafting and revising manuscript. Mustaf M. Shariff, MD—drafting and revising manuscript. Julie Gabel, DVM, MPH—drafting and revising manuscript. Skyler Brennan, MPH—drafting and revising manuscript. Cherie Drenzek, DVM, MS—drafting and revising manuscript. Monica M. Farley, MD—drafting and revising manuscript. Robert P. Gaynes, MD—drafting and revising manuscript. Emily J. Cartwright, MD—drafting, revising, and submitting manuscript.

All authors report no potential conflicts of interest relevant to this manuscript. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Conflicts that the editors consider relevant to the content of the manuscript have been disclosed.

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TL1TR002382 provided protected time for S. N. Gopalsamy.

Keywords:

  • Science & Technology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Microbiology
  • Brucella suis
  • brucellosis
  • mass
  • matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization
  • Ochrobactrum anthropi
  • spectrometry
  • FERAL SWINE
  • UNITED-STATES
  • SUIS
  • IDENTIFICATION
  • PREVALENCE
  • ANTIBODIES
  • INFECTION

Brucellosis Initially Misidentified as Ochrobactrum anthropi Bacteremia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Journal Title:

OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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Volume 8, Number 10

Publisher:

, Pages ofab473-ofab473

Type of Work:

Article | Final Publisher PDF

Abstract:

Automated identification systems may misidentify Brucella, the causative agent of brucellosis, which may be re-emerging in the United States as the result of an expanding feral swine population. We present a case of Brucella suis likely associated with feral swine exposure that was misidentified as Ochrobactrum anthropi, a phylogenetic relative.

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This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/rdf).
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