Automated identification systems may misidentify Brucella, the causative agent of brucellosis, which may be re-emerging in the United States as the result of an expanding feral swine population. We present a case of Brucella suis likely associated with feral swine exposure that was misidentified as Ochrobactrum anthropi, a phylogenetic relative.
Keywords: Brucella suis; Ochrobactrum anthropi; brucellosis; mass; matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization; spectrometry.
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