| Brucella suis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Brucellaceae |
| Genus: | Brucella |
| Species: | B. suis
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| Binomial name | |
| Brucella suis Huddleson, 1929
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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 gestation.[2] Other manifestations are temporary or permanent sterility, lameness, posterior paralysis, spondylitis, and abscess formation. It is transmitted mainly by ingestion of infected tissues or fluids, semen during breeding, and suckling infected animals.[3]
Since brucellosis threatens the food supply and causes undulant fever,[4] Brucella suis and other Brucella species (B. melitensis, B. abortus, B. ovis, B. canis) are recognized as potential agricultural, civilian, and military bioterrorism agents.[5]
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- ^ Nicoletti, P (2016). "Brucellosis in Pigs - Reproductive System". Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
- ^ Wilson, G. S. (1955). Topley and Wilson’s principles of bacteriology and immunity. London, England: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd.
- ^ Halling, SM; Peterson-Burch, BD; Bricker, BJ; Zuerner, RL; Qing, Z; Li, LL; Kapur, V; Alt, DP; Olsen, SC (April 2005). "Completion of the genome sequence of Brucella abortus and comparison to the highly similar genomes of Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis". Journal of Bacteriology. 187 (8): 2715–26. doi:10.1128/jb.187.8.2715-2726.2005. PMC 1070361. PMID 15805518.
