Epidemiologically characteristics of human brucellosis and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Brucella melitensis in Hinggan League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Table 1 Biotyping characteristics of Brucella species isolates in this study

Code of isolate	No.	Growth characteristic				Monospecific sera			Phages lysis testing			Interpreted
Code of isolate	No.	CO₂ requested	H₂S	BF	TH	A	M	R	Tb	BK₂	Wb	Interpreted
BA	1	+	+	+	–	+	–	–	CL	CL	CL	B. abortus 544
BM	1	–	–	+	+	–	+	–	NL	CL	NL	B. melitensis16M
BS	1	–	++	–	+	+	–	–	NL	CL	CL	B. suis 1330
Strains tested	13	–	–	+	+	–	+	–	NL	CL	NL	B. melitensis bv. 1
Strains tested	41	–	–	+	+	+	+	–	NL	CL	NL	B. melitensis bv. 3

Description of data:
No., the number of strains tested
BF Basic fuchsin at 20 μg/ml (1/50 000, w/v), TH Thionin at 20 μg/ml (1/50 000, w/v)
Phages, Tb Tbilisi, BK₂ Berkeley type 2, Wb Weybridge;
CL Confluent Lysis, NL No lysis;
+, positive (serum agglutination positive)
-, negative (serum agglutination negative)

ISSN: 2049-9957