Figure 7From: Brucella cetiinfection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean seaBrucella phylogenetic tree based on MLVA16 analysis of all the various Brucella species and strains (http://mlva.upsud.fr/brucella/). Notice that the three Western (Spanish) and the Eastern (Italian) B. ceti Mediterranean strains cluster together in a single group (shadowed in gray) in a clade close to the Atlantic isolates (A1 and A2), all belonging to ST 26.Back to article page