Taxonomy	Species	Brucella melitensis
	Category	Bacteria
	Genus	Brucella
	Family	Brucellaceae
	Order/Class	Rhizobiales
	Phylum	Proteobacteria
Human and animal disease	Human disease	Brucellosis
	Predominant syndrome	Systemic
	Occ. risk group	Food processers
	Incubation time	1-3 weeks
	Disease in farm animals	Yes
	Disease in pets and horses	No
	Disease in wildlife	Yes
	Specfic animal species	Elks, bisons, cows
Reservoirs	Humans	No
	Farm animals	Yes
	Pets and horses	No
	Wildlife	Yes
	Specific animal species	Sheep, goats, wild ruminants

Transmission	Human to human	No
	Skin	No
	Tissue/blood: Arthropods	No
	Tissue/blood: Invasive actions	No
	Secreta/excreta: Air	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Water/food/environment	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Close animal contact	Yes
	Transmission info	Aerogens, milk, urine, direct contact
Geographic distribution	Netherlands	No
	Europe	Yes
	Africa	Yes
	North America	Yes
	South America	Yes
	Australia	Yes
	Asia	Yes
	Distribution info	Worldwide
Info	Specifics
	Human ref. website URL
	Animal ref. website URL

		Value		Normalised value	Weight	Score
1	Probability of introduction into the Netherlands	50	%	0.87	0.418	0.36
2	Transmission in animal reservoirs	10	%	0.86	0.292	0.25
3	Economic damage, animal reservoirs	50	M€	0.61	0.337	0.2
4	Animal-human transmission	0.005	%	0	0.626	0
5	Human-human transmission	0	%	0	0.339	0
6	Morbidity	0.06		0.28	0.181	0.05
7	Mortality	0.05	%	0.53	0.643	0.34
	Total					1.21
	Normalised score					0.48

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