Identification of an unusual Brucella strain (BO2) from a lung biopsy in a 52 year-old patient with chronic destructive pneumonia

Table 1 MIC results for 5 antimicrobial agents tested against BO1^T, BO2 strains and 93 Brucella strains

	BO1^T MIC (μg/ml)			BO2 MIC (μg/ml)			Brucella spp.^a in *Brucella* broth 48 h
	CAMHB ^b	*Brucella* Broth	*Brucella* Broth	CAMHB	*Brucella* Broth	*Brucella* Broth	MIC Range	MIC ₉₀
Antimicrobial agent	20 h	20 h	48 h	20 h	20 h	48 h	(μg/ml)	(μg/ml)
Doxycycline	0.25	0.25	0.5	0.25	0.25	0.5	0.06 - 1	0.25
Gentamicin	1	2	2	1	2	2	0.5 - 2	1
Streptomycin	4	4	4	2	4	4	1 - 8	4
Tetracycline	0.25	0.5	1	0.12	0.25	0.25	0.12 - 1	0.5
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole	0.5/9.5	0.25/4.75	0.5/9.50.25	0.5/9.5	0.25/4.75	0.5/9.5	0.12/2.38 - 0.5/9.5	0.5/9.5

^a Ninety-three Brucella isolates (74 B. meli1tensis, 14 B. suis, and 5 B. abortus) were tested [30].
^b CAMHB = cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth.

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