Quick screening for Brucella virulence genes with the Bat-VFDB: Brucella addition to the Virulence Factor DataBase

Andries A. Kampfraath; Jeroen Koomen; Timo Dijkstra; Ad Koets; Marielle H. van den Esker

doi:10.1128/mra.00730-25

Quick screening for Brucella virulence genes with the Bat-VFDB: Brucella addition to the Virulence Factor DataBase

Andries A. Kampfraath^*
, Jeroen Koomen
, Timo Dijkstra
, Ad Koets
, Marielle H. van den Esker

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Bat-VFDB database was developed to enable quick screening for, and identification of, virulence genes in genomes of Brucella species. This database comprises a complete set of known Brucella spp. virulence genes and can be used by the ABRicate tool for screening large sets of genomes at once.

Original language	English
Article number	e00730-25
Number of pages	7
Journal	Microbiology Resource Announcements
Volume	14
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00730-25
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2025

Keywords

brucellosis
database
genome screening
virulence genes

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Brucellose (WOT-01-002-030, WOT-01-002-006.01)
Koets, A. (Project Leader)
1/01/08 → 31/12/26
Project: LVVN project

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