Brucella intermedia

Brucella intermedia is a bacterium from the genus of Brucella.^[4][5] It was first described by Velasco and others in 1998.^[6] It causes diseases in humans only rarely, with single case reports of cholangitis following liver transplantation,^[7] bacteremia in a patient with bladder cancer,^[8] a pelvic abscess after abdominal surgery,^[9][10] dyspepsia,^[11] endophthalmitis in the presence of a foreign body,^[12] pneumonia,^[13] and endocarditis.^[14]

Brucella intermedia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Brucellaceae
Genus:	Brucella
Species:	B. intermedia
Binomial name
Brucella intermedia (Velasco et al. 1998) Hördt et al. 2020[1]
Type strain
BCRC 17247, CCM 7179, CCRC 17247, CCUG 24694, CIP 105838, CL 350/83, CNS 2-75, DSM 17986, IFO 15820, LMG 3301, NBRC 15820, NCTC 12171, VTT E-991166[2]
Synonyms[3]
Ochrobactrum intermedium Velasco et al. 1998

B. intermedia, B. anthropi, and Brucella melitensis can be distinguished on the basis of a multi-primer polymerase chain reaction that targets the recA gene.^[15] A genome of B. intermedia was sequenced and submitted to GenBank in 2013.^[16]