If You're Not Confused, You're Not Paying Attention: <i>Ochrobactrum</i> Is Not Brucella
Edgardo Moreno, Earl A. Middlebrook, Pamela Altamirano-Silva, Sascha Al Dahouk, George F. Araj, Vilma Arce‐Gorvel, Ángela M. Arenas-Gamboa, Javier Ariza, Elías Barquero‐Calvo, Giorgio Battelli, Wilson J. Bertu, J.M. Blasco, Mile Bosilkovski, Simeon Cadmus, Clayton C. Caswell, Jean Celli, Carlos Chacón‐Díaz, Esteban Chaves‐Olarte, Diego J. Comerci, Raquel Conde-Álvarez, Elizabeth A. J. Cook, Silvio Cravero, Maryam Dadar, Xavier De Bolle, Fabrizio De Massis, Ramón Díaz, Gabriela I. Escobar, Luis Fernández-Lago, Thomas A. Ficht, Jeffrey T. Foster, Bruno Garin‐Bastuji, Jacques Godfroid, Jean‐Pierre Gorvel, Leyla Güler, Sevil Erdenliğ-Gürbilek, Amayel M. Gusi, Caterina Guzmán‐Verri, Hai Jiang, Gabriela Hernández-Mora, Maite Iriarte, Nestor R. Jacob, Anne Keriel, Mammar Khames, Stephan Köhler, Jean‐Jacques Letesson, Maite Loperena-Barber, Ignacio López‐Goñi, John McGiven, Falk Melzer, Ricardo Mora-Cartín, Jacob Moran‐Gilad, Pilar M. Muñoz, Heinrich Neubauer, David O’Callaghan, R. A. Ocholi, Ángel Oñate, Piyush Pandey, Γεώργιος Παππάς, J. Tony Pembroke, R. Martin Roop, Nazaret Ruiz-Villalonos, Michael P. Ryan, Suzana P. Salcedo, Miriam Salvador-Bescós, Félix J. Sangari, Renato L. Santos, Aristarchos Seimenis, Gary A. Splitter, Marcela Suárez‐Esquivel, D. Tabbaa, Marcos D. Trangoni, Renée M. Tsolis, Nieves Vizcaı́no, Gamal Wareth, Susan C. Welburn, Adrian M. Whatmore, Amaia Zúñiga-Ripa, Ignacio Moriyón
Abstract
Bacteria of the genus Brucella are facultative intracellular parasites that cause brucellosis, a severe animal and human disease. Recently, a group of taxonomists merged the brucellae with the primarily free-living, phylogenetically related Ochrobactrum spp. in the genus Brucella .