Genotyping of Brucella isolates from animals and humans by Multiple-Locus Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysis
Murat Özmen1, Ediz Kağan Özgen1, Orbay Sayı1
1Veterinary Control Institute, Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Erzurum, Türkiye.
Abstract:
This study investigates country-wide genotype variations through the genotyping of Brucella strains isolated from domestic ruminants and humans. The Brucella spp. isolated from samples taken from animals and humans were first identified as B. abortus and B. melitensis by real-time PCR, and the MLVA-16 approach was then used for the genotyping of the identified isolates. For the study, 416 Brucella spp. were isolated from aborted fetus samples examined between 2018 and 2021, and 74 Brucella spp. from infected humans. Of the 74 human isolates analyzed, 1.3% were identified as B. abortus and 98.7% (73/74) as B. melitensis. The MLVA-16 typing method revealed 30 clonal groups for B. abortus and 37 clonal groups for B. melitensis from which the dominant genotypes and similarities with human isolates in Türkiye were determined.
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