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. 2014 Sep 17;10:206. doi: 10.1186/s12917-014-0206-7

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© Isidoro-Ayza et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014

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Cladogram based on MLVA16 analysis of Brucella isolates from marine mammals ( http://mlva.upsud.fr/brucella/ ). The dispersion of the various Brucella strains is depicted as cones proportional to the number of strains analyzed. Notice than the five B. ceti Mediterranean strains (three from this work and two reported by Garofolo et al. [15]) cluster together in a single group in a clade close to the Atlantic isolates (A1 and A2), and far from the B. ceti porpoise type (B) and B. pinnipedialis (C1, C2, C3). B. ceti bmar265 (human isolate from New Zealand) does not correspond to the B. ceti group and it is ST27. B. melitensis was used as an out-group for the analysis.