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  2. Brucella abortus - Wikipedia

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    A few of the symptoms of brucellosis include: fever, chills, headache, backache, and weight loss. As with any disease, there can be serious complications; endocarditis and liver abscess are a couple of complications for brucellosis. [7] Although rare, B. abortus (and other Brucella spp.) can be transmitted between humans, usually via sexual ...

  3. Brucella - Wikipedia

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    Congenital brucellosis, on the other hand, is a rare condition; most cases are associated with premature birth, and it affects about 2% of infants exposed to brucellosis in utero. [14] Congenitally infected infants can exhibit low birth weight, failure to thrive, jaundice, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, respiratory difficulty, and general signs of ...

  4. Brucella suis - Wikipedia

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    Brucella suis is a bacterium that causes swine brucellosis, a zoonosis that affects pigs. The disease typically causes chronic inflammatory lesions in the reproductive organs of susceptible animals or orchitis, and may even affect joints and other organs. [1] The most common symptom is abortion in pregnant susceptible sows at any stage of ...

  5. Brucellosis - Wikipedia

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    Brucellosis in the intervertebral disc is one possible cause of discospondylitis. Symptoms of brucellosis in dogs include abortion in female dogs and scrotal inflammation and orchitis in males. Fever is uncommon. Infection of the eye can cause uveitis, and infection of the intervertebral disc can cause pain or weakness. Blood testing of the ...

  6. Brucella ceti - Wikipedia

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    Serological surveys have shown that cetacean brucellosis may be distributed worldwide in the oceans. The likely transmission route for the bacterial pathogen in cetaceans is through mating or reproduction and lactation. [1] Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease: marine mammal brucellosis can infect other species, including human beings.

  7. Brucella inopinata - Wikipedia

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  8. Bacillary dysentery - Wikipedia

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    Bacillary dysentery is a type of dysentery, and is a severe form of shigellosis.It is associated with species of bacteria from the family Enterobacteriaceae. [1] The term is usually restricted to Shigella infections.

  9. Alice Catherine Evans - Wikipedia

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    She proved that Bacillus abortus (called Brucella abortus) caused the disease brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans, which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Evans was the first woman president elected by the Society of American Bacteriologists.