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Table 1 Brucella melitensis isolates studied

From: Cases of human brucellosis in Sweden linked to Middle East and Africa

Strain id

Year

Patient nationality

Species

Lineage

MLVA8a

MLVA11b

MLVA16

Comments

R12_209

2012

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

A

Exact match with human strains from Germany as introduction from Turkey [13], and from Turkey [18]

R12_65

2012

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

Novel

B

 

R12_87

2012

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

C

Exact match with human strain from Italy as introduction from Syria [14]

R12_95

2012

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

Novel

Novel

D

 

R13_15

2013

Swedish

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

A

Exact match with human strains from Germany as introduction from Turkey [13], and from Turkey [18]

R13_6

2013

Somali

B. melitensis

Africa

94

178

E

 

R14_08

2008

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

106

F

 

R15_08

2008

Syrian

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

G

 

R26_10

2010

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

H

 

R4_10

2010

Afghan

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

63

111

I

 

R47_08

2008

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

J

Exact match with human strains from Turkey [18]

R60_09

2009

Kurds

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

K

Exact match with human from Lebanon [17]

R67_08

2008

Kurds

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

L

 

R68_11

2011

Kurds

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

K

Exact match with human from Lebanon [17]

R82_11

2011

Iraqi

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

42

116

M

 

R95_11

2011

Kurds

B. melitensis

East Mediterranean

43

125

N

Exact match with human strains from Turkey [13, 18]

  1. MLVA profiles are provided as Additional file 1
  2. a, b MLVA8 and MLVA11 genotypes are designed according to the Brucella cooperative database of the MLVA bank, while MLVA16 genotypes are herein assigned with capital letters (A–N)