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BACKGROUND: Brucella spp. are globally important zoonotic bacteria, which have historically been considered pathogens of warm-blooded species. More recently, new strains of Brucella have been cultured from a broader range of animals including terrestrial and marine mammals and amphibians. These new isolates are classified as 'atypical' brucellae and differ from the classical stains by host tropism, phenotypic traits or phylogenetic distance. Atypical Brucella have previously been described as the cause of localised and systemic infection in frogs. CASE REPORT: This report describes the clinical features, pathology, microbiology and molecular characteristics of persistent Brucella spp. infection in two Australian green tree frogs and its isolation in an additional in-contact, clinically well frog. CONCLUSION: The two frogs that died had severe nephritis attributed to brucellosis with disseminated infection identified in one animal.
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Brucella/genética , Brucelose/veterinária , Animais , Austrália , DNA Bacteriano , FilogeniaRESUMO
The authors' experience with surgical complications following kidney transplantation is presented. From 1973 till May 1990, 136 transplantations were performed, out of which 21 before and 117 after 1983. Surgical complications occurred in 20 patients, thus reaching the incidence of 14.5% which corresponds with the incidence reported by other institutions. The incidence of vascular complications was 5.0%, of urological 4.3%, of lymphatic 1.4%, of wound infections 2.2%, and of graft ruptures 1.4%. Urological and vascular complications made for 65% of all the surgical complications which in 40% resulted in the loss of the graft. Out of the total number of the lost grafts, surgical complications were responsible in 28.1%.
