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Volume 31, Number 4—April 2025
Dispatch

Reemergence of Brucella abortus, Israel, 2021

Svetlana Bardenstein1, Daniel Grupel1, Boris Even-Tov, Yair Motro, and Jacob Moran-GiladComments to Author 
Author affiliation: National Brucella Reference Laboratory, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Beit Dagan, Israel (S. Bardenstein); Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel (D. Grupel, J. Moran-Gilad); Galil-Golan Regional Office, Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Rosh Pina, Israel (B. Even-Tov); Ben Gurion University of the Negev School of Public Health, Beer Sheva, Israel (Y. Motro, J. Moran-Gilad).

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Minimum-spanning tree 7 study isolates and 986 public genomes in study of reemergence of Brucella abortus, Israel, 2021. Tree shows core-genome multilocus sequence typing analysis of 7 study isolates of B. abortus (5 bovine isolates, 1 clinical human isolate and 1 B19 vaccine strain) and 986 public genomes (Appendix 1 Table 3, using an ad hoc scheme of 2,460 loci (at 95% genome presence threshold). Genomes are color-coded by assigned clade (6). Purple outer rings indicate B. abortus reference genomes (7 biovars and S19 vaccine strain); red outer rinds indicate Isolates from Israel (7 study isolates, 2 public genomes). Node size is proportional to the number of genomes.

Figure 2. Minimum-spanning tree 7 study isolates and 986 public genomes in study of reemergence of Brucella abortus, Israel, 2021. Tree shows core-genome multilocus sequence typing analysis of 7 study isolates of B. abortus (5 bovine isolates, 1 clinical human isolate and 1 B19 vaccine strain) and 986 public genomes (Appendix 1 Table 3, using an ad hoc scheme of 2,460 loci (at 95% genome presence threshold). Genomes are color-coded by assigned clade (6). Purple outer rings indicate B. abortus reference genomes (7 biovars and S19 vaccine strain); red outer rinds indicate Isolates from Israel (7 study isolates, 2 public genomes). Node size is proportional to the number of genomes.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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