如果你没有困惑,你没有注意:Ochrobactrum不是布鲁塞拉
Edgardo Moreno1, Earl A Middlebrook2, Pamela Altamirano-Silva3
1Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Journal of clinical microbiology
|July 3, 2023
概括
这项研究反对将Brucella和Ochrobactrum细菌合并成一个单一的属. 拟议的变化缺乏足够的证据,并对公共卫生和疾病控制工作构成风险.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 细菌的分类学 细菌的分类学
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
背景情况:
- 布鲁塞拉细菌会引起一种重要的动物传染病 - - 布鲁塞洛症.
- 最近的分类学建议基于基因组数据将Brucella与Ochrobactrum合并.
- 这种合并已经被文化收藏品和数据库所采用.
研究的目的:
- 批判性地评估Brucella和Ochrobactrum属的拟议合并.
- 倡导维护布鲁塞拉和奥克罗巴克特的独特分类.
- 为了突出这一分类学变化的潜在负面影响.
主要方法:
- 审查分类学标准和植物遗传学分析.
- 对基因组,结构,生理和病原体差异的评估.
- 对临床,诊断和公共卫生影响的评估.
主要成果:
- 拟议的合并缺乏强大的遗传学支持和专家共识.
- 在病原性,临床特征和属性特征上存在显著差异.
- 目前的分类不考虑布鲁塞拉和Ochrobactrum之间的关键区别.
结论:
- 布鲁塞拉和Ochrobactrum的合并在科学上是不合理的,并且可能有害.
- 保持单独的属性对于准确诊断,治疗和控制牛病至关重要.
- 微生物学家,数据库和卫生当局应该拒绝拟议的命名规范变更.
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