Zoonotic Potential of .

is a pathogen of rodents and wild mammals. Here, we report the first probable infection with in a mammalogist. In the study, we provided complete clinical description as well as laboratory analysis of probable human infection caused by . Considering the clinical course of the infection, the obvious epidemiological link (a bite by an infected rodent), the isolation of a pathogen from a sick vole that was affected by clinical infection with , and the specific serological response (slow agglutination test) in human patient, we can conclude that the human disease described here was probably caused by , an emerging bacterial pathogen transmitted by rodents. Rodents and other wildlife need to be monitored not only for established zoonotic agents such as hantaviruses, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, spp., , but also for and other atypical rodent-borne brucellae.