Brucellosis

Genome of potential bioterror agent sequenced

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 24th, 2002

Scientists at the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in collaboration with colleagues at Virginia Tech, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, have determined the complete genomic sequence of Brucella suis, a bacterial pathogen and potential bioterrorism agent that could be targeted against humans or livestock.

TIGR's analysis of that sequence and related genomes found "fundamental similarities" between the genome of Brucella - a pathogen that infects only animals - and other microbes that cause diseases in plants or live symbiotically with plants.

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