TY - JOUR AU - Suárez-Esquivel, Marcela AU - Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth AU - Jiménez-Rojas, César AU - Barquero-Calvo, Elías AU - Chacón-Díaz, Carlos AU - Víquez-Ruiz, Eunice AU - Rojas-Campos, Norman AU - Baker, Kate AU - Oviedo-Sánchez, Gerardo AU - Amuy, Ernesto AU - Chaves-Olarte, Esteban AU - Thomson, Nicholas AU - Moreno, Edgardo AU - Guzmán-Verri, Caterina T1 - Brucella neotomae Infection in Humans, Costa Rica T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 6 SP - 997 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Several species of Brucella are known to be zoonotic, but B. neotomae infection has been thought to be limited to wood rats. In 2008 and 2011, however, B. neotomae was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of 2 men with neurobrucellosis. The nonzoonotic status of B. neotomae should be reassessed. KW - Brucella KW - Brucella neotomae KW - zoonoses KW - neurobrucellosis KW - bacteria KW - Costa Rica KW - brucellosis KW - neurological infections DO - 10.3201/eid2306.162018 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/6/16-2018_article ER - End of Reference