Brucellosis

Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by species. It is known by many other names, including remitting fever, undulant fever, Mediterranean fever, Maltese fever, Gibraltar fever, Crimean fever, goat fever, and Bang disease. The disease was described by George Cleghorn, a British army surgeon stationed on Minorca, in his 1751 work Brucellosis again came to the attention of medical officers of the British army on the island of Malta following the Crimean War. The genus is named for Major-General Sir David Bruce, who, in 1886, led the Malta Fever Commission that identified as the organism responsible for the disease. In 1905, Sir Themistocles Zammit identified that infected goats transmitted brucellosis in their milk.  organisms are small aerobic intracellular coccobacilli. These are found in the reproductive organs of host animals, causing abortions and sterility. They are shed in urine, milk, placental fluid, and other fluids of the animals. Many species have been identified, but the following four have moderate-to-significant human pathogenicity: (from sheep).  (from pigs).  (from cattle).  (from dogs). and  have the highest pathogenicity, while and have moderate pathogenicity.