title: Cross-border molecular tracing of brucellosis in Europe.
abstract: To assess the general impact of endemic countries on the re-emergence of brucellosis in non-endemic regions of the European Union, the genetic fingerprints of Brucella melitensis strains imported to Germany were compared to ovine strains from Turkey in a molecular epidemiological study. Genotyping of 66 Brucella strains (based on Multiple Locus of Variable number of tandem repeats Analysis) isolated from German travellers and Turkish immigrants living in Germany revealed epidemiological concordance with 20 sheep isolates originating from Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. In summary, cross-border molecular tracing confirmed brucellosis being a zoonosis of concern for European public health.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Mayada
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gwida
authors.forename: Heinrich
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Neubauer
authors.forename: Ziya
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ilhan
authors.forename: Gernot
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schmoock
authors.forename: Falk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Melzer
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nöckler
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Janczyk
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tomaso
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rösler
authors.forename: Sascha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Al Dahouk
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017347:Brucella melitensis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005838:Genotype; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D012756:Sheep / Q000382:microbiology; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial