Brucella suis infection was diagnosed in a man from Tonga, Polynesia, who had butchered swine in Oregon, USA. Although the US commercial swine herd is designated brucellosis-free, exposure history suggested infection from commercial pigs. We used whole-genome sequencing to determine that the man was infected in Tonga, averting a field investigation.
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Quance, C., Robbe-Austerman, S., Stuber, T., Brignole, T., DeBess, E. E., Boyd, L., … Erdman, M. M. (2016). Identification of source of Brucella suis infection in human by using whole-genome sequencing, United States and Tonga. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(1), 79–82. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2201.150843
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