| [isolation of "brucella suis" biotype 5 from a bitch, in madagascar. validity of the species name "brucella canis" (author's transl)]. | a gram-negative organism isolated from a btich, in madagascar, was examined by bacteriologic, immunologic and metabolic methods, in parallel with cultures representative of the brucella species. the organism fits well into the genus brucella on the basis of its growth, biochemical and antigenic characteristics and was found to have the metabolic pattern on l-asparagine (-), l-arginine (+) and dl-ornithine (+) that identifies and defines the species brucella suis. it is of rough colonial morpholo ... | 1975 | 811148 |