Comparisons of brucellosis between human and veterinary medicine

Figures & data

Table 1. Brucella species by host. Zoonotic potential is classified as pathogenicity and virulence in human hosts. Original citation indicates the original publication where the species was characterized.

Species	Natural host	Zoonotic Potential [8]	Original Citation
B. melitensis	Sheep, goats, and camels	Yes – High	[5]
B. abortus	Cattle, elk, and bison	Yes – High	[6]
B. suis	Pigs, hare, reindeer/caribou	Yes – High	[122]
B. canis	Dogs (domestic and wild)	Yes – Moderate	[123]
B. ovis	Sheep	No reported infections	[124]
B. neotomae	Desert wood rats	No reported infections	[125]
B. ceti	Cetaceans	Yes – Low	[126]
B. pinnipedialis	Pinnipeds	Yes – Low
B. microti	Red foxes and common voles	No reported infections	[127]
B. inopinata	Unknown	Yes – High	[2,128]
B. papionis	Non-Human Primates	No reported infections	[129,130]
B. vulpis	Red fox	No reported infections	[131,132]
Brucella NFXXXX	Australian rat	No reported infections	[133,134]
B. unnamed	Blue dotted ray	No reported infections	[131]
B. inopinata-like 09RB8471	African bullfrogs and Big-eyed tree frog	No reported infections	[2,135]
Brucella UK8/14	White’s tree frog	No reported infections	[136]

Figure 1. Heat map of human incidence (per 1,000,000 individuals). White space indicates no data. Adapted from Pappas et al., 2006 and other sources [23,27,28].

Figure 2. Heat map of number of brucellosis outbreaks (B. abortus, B. melitensis, and B. suis) in livestock as reported to WAHIS for the last complete year of data, 2014. White space indicates no data. Grey space indicates zero reported outbreaks.

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