| isolation of brucella melitensis from alpine ibex. | eleven alpine ibex (capra ibex) and 27 chamois (rupicapra rupicapra) from gran paradiso national park (italy) were examined in march 1996. a 7-yr-old ibex buck had thick-walled carpal joints and enlargement of the right testicle characterized by necrosis and fibrosis. microscopically, testicular lesions were characterized by large areas of necrosis, fibrosis with irregular aggregates of macrophages and lymphocytes, and scattered foci of suppuration. specimens of the carpal bursae and testicle we ... | 1998 | 9577795 |
| brucella melitensis in france: persistence in wildlife and probable spillover from alpine ibex to domestic animals. | bovine brucellosis is a major zoonosis, mainly caused by brucella abortus, more rarely by brucella melitensis. france has been bovine brucellosis officially-free since 2005 with no cases reported in domestic/wild ruminants since 2003. in 2012, bovine and autochthonous human cases due to b. melitensis biovar 3 (bmel3) occurred in the french alps. epidemiological investigations implemented in wild and domestic ruminants evidenced a high seroprevalence (>45%) in alpine ibex (capra ibex); no cases w ... | 2014 | 24732322 |