| Vaccinated guinea pigs also withstood an experimental challenge of 5,000colony-forming units of a locally isolated virulent B. abortus strain. |
| The authors reviewed over 50 publications in which the sensitivity and specificity values of assays used for the detection of exposure to Brucella abortus had been examined. |
| This indicates abortus fever and brucellosis are synonyms of a single disease name and the term brucellosis has been chosen as the preferred term. |
| Animals seldom present with symptoms, although B. abortus can cause cattle to abort. |
| In the pasteurization of milk, the time and temperature conditions target the pathogenic bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Coxiella burnetti, and Brucella abortus. |
| We have therefore suggested the name Bacillus abortus, Bang, for this organism. |
