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Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014
Dispatch

Increasing Threat of Brucellosis to Low-Risk Persons in Urban Settings, China

Shouyi Chen1, Hao Zhang1, Xiaoning Liu1, Wenjing Wang1, Shuiping Hou, Tingting Li, Shuoxian Zhao, Zhicong Yang, and Chengyao LiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China (S. Chen, H. Zhang, X. Liu, S. Hou, Z. Yang); Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China (W. Wang, T. Li, S. Zhao, C. Li)

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Table 2

Bacteriological and biochemical features of Brucella strains

Strain TZ (twin boy) TS (twin girl) ML (mother)
CO2 requirement
H2S production



Dye inhibition*
Thionin + + +
Basic fuchsin
+
+
+
Mono-specific anti-serum agglutination†
A + + +
M + + +
R



Lysis test by Brucella spp. phage‡
Tb104
Tb
Wb ± ± ±
BK2
+
+
+
Identification
Species B. melitensis B. melitensis B. melitensis
Biovar 3 3 3
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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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