"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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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brucella melitensis" by people in Profiles.
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Splitter G, Harms J, Petersen E, Magnani D, Durward M, Rajashekara G, Radhakrishnan G. Studying host-pathogen interaction events in living mice visualized in real time using biophotonic imaging. Methods Mol Biol. 2014; 1197:67-85.
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Smith JA, Khan M, Magnani DD, Harms JS, Durward M, Radhakrishnan GK, Liu YP, Splitter GA. Brucella induces an unfolded protein response via TcpB that supports intracellular replication in macrophages. PLoS Pathog. 2013; 9(12):e1003785.
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Magnani DM, Lyons ET, Forde TS, Shekhani MT, Adarichev VA, Splitter GA. Osteoarticular tissue infection and development of skeletal pathology in murine brucellosis. Dis Model Mech. 2013 May; 6(3):811-8.
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Durward MA, Harms J, Magnani DM, Eskra L, Splitter GA. Discordant Brucella melitensis antigens yield cognate CD8+ T cells in vivo. Infect Immun. 2010 Jan; 78(1):168-76.