Karsten Nöckler

TL;DR: Evidence that the disease can be monitored and to some extent controlled with a rigorous reporting and testing system in place should be motivation to expand appropriate programs worldwide.

TL;DR: The MLVA-15 assay can be applied to large collections of Brucella strains with automated or manual procedures, and can be proposed as a complement, or even a substitute, of classical biotyping methods.

TL;DR: Isolates CCM 4915(T) andCCM 4916 could be clearly distinguished from all known Brucella species and their biovars by means of both their phenotypic and molecular properties, and therefore represent a novel species within the genus Bru cella.

TL;DR: Strain BO1(T) harboured four to five copies of the Brucella-specific insertion element IS 711, displaying a unique banding pattern, and exhibited a unique 16S rRNA gene sequence and also grouped separately in multilocus sequence typing analysis.

TL;DR: The MLVA assay is rapid, highly discriminatory, and reproducible within human Brucella isolates, and can significantly contribute to epidemiological trace-back analysis of BrucellA infections and may advance surveillance and control of human brucellosis.