TY - JOUR AU - Liu, Xiafei AU - Yang, Meihua AU - Song, Shengnan AU - Liu, Gang AU - Zhao, Shanshan AU - Liu, Guangyuan AU - Hornok, Sándor AU - Wang, Yuanzhi AU - Jiang, Hai T1 - Brucella melitensis in Asian Badgers, Northwestern China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 804 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We isolated Brucella melitensis biovar 3 from the spleen of an Asian badger (Meles leucurus) in Nilka County, northwestern China. Our investigation showed that this isolate had a common multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis 16 genotype, similar to bacterial isolates from local aborted sheep fetuses. KW - Brucella melitensis KW - bacteria KW - Asian badger KW - Meles leucurus KW - zoonoses KW - China DO - 10.3201/eid2604.190833 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-0833_article ER - End of Reference