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    • Transmission via contact with secretions from infected animals
    • Routes of infection: skin abrasions, inhalation, ingestion
    • Unpasteurised milk source of infection
    • Undulant fever - fluctuating pyrexia, malaise, fatigue, muscle and joint pains, osteomyelitis
    • Can become chronic
    • B melitensis and B. suis cause most severe infections
    • Antimicrobials