American Society for Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, 3(90), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/iai.00013-22
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Research on Brucella pathogenesis has focused primarily on its ability to cause persistent intracellular infection of the mononuclear phagocyte system. At these sites, Brucella abortus evades innate immunity, which results in low-level inflammation and chronic infection of phagocytes.