Brucella abortus and public health risk: Prevalence in milk sold at open markets in Cameroon

• Pierre Gontao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre Gontao, Christopher G. Laine

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Christopher G. Laine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre Gontao, Christopher G. Laine

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2903-176X

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• Gaelle Kamdjo Guela,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Charles Olivier Gomsu Dada,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Hortense Abiba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Charles Félix Bilong Bilong,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Wilfred Mbacham,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Daniel G. Garcia-Gonzalez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Sonia Vection,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• John D. Gillece,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Jeffrey T. Foster,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Abel Wade,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Angela M. Arenas-Gamboa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aarenas@cvm.tamu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1631-2653

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