Table 1.

Clinical signs, biotyping, molecular identification and genotyping of B. abortus isolates from a bovine brucellosis outbreak

Strain	Clinical sample	Collection date	Biovar	Genotype b	Clinical signal
1414	vaginal swab	09/01/2009	3	W	Abortion
2757	vaginal swab	09/01/2009	1	RB	-
2985	vaginal swab	09/01/2009	3	W	-
3144	vaginal swab	10/01/2009	1	RB	-
2575	vaginal swab	09/02/2009	3	W	-
2558	vaginal swab	07/03/2009	1	RB	-
2608	vaginal swab	08/03/2009	1	RB	-
1379	vaginal swab	07/04/2009	1	RB	-
3136	vaginal swab	10/05/2009	1	RB	-
2634	vaginal swab	10/07/2009	3	W	Abortion
1365	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	Stillbirth
2476	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	-
2598	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	Stillbirth
2683	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	-
2785	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	-
2965	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	-
2980	milk	07/27/2009	3	W	-
3159	vaginal swab	07/27/2009	1	RB	-
2922	vaginal swab	08/18/2009	1	RB	-
3169	vaginal swab	08/21/2009	1	RB	-
2545	vaginal swab	09/19/2009	3	W	Stillbirth
2595	vaginal swab	10/17/2009	3	W	-
1198	vaginal swab	10/28/2009	3	W	Abortion
1219	vaginal swab	10/28/2009	3	W	Abortion
2251	vaginal swab	07/11/2009	3	W	-
2496	vaginal swab	07/11/2009	3	W	-
2700	vaginal swab	09/11/2009	3	W	Abortion
2588	vaginal swab	01/28/2010	3	W	-
3238	vaginal swab	05/03/2010	3	W	Stillbirth
2726	vaginal swab	03/28/2010	1	RB	-
3006	vaginal swab	05/04/2010	3	W	-
2998	vaginal swab	04/15/2010	3	W	-
3022	vaginal swab	04/27/2010	3	W	-
3016	vaginal swab	04/30/2010	3	W	-
2774	vaginal swab	02/06/2010	1a	Z	-
2543	vaginal swab	03/11/2010	1	RB	-
2850	vaginal swab	03/11/2010	1	RB	-

^aB. abortus biovar 1field strain.

^bMLVA16 genotype.