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The World Health Organization considers brucellosis to be one of the most serious and also neglected zoonotic diseases. The use of traditional whole-cell brucellosis vaccines complicates the differentiation between infected and vaccinated animals (DIVA). Moreover, diagnostics based on lipopolysaccharide of <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic> are susceptible to false positive results. Structural features of <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic> O-antigens make synthetic oligosaccharides promising agents for the development of diagnostic tools and vaccines against brucellosis. Here we report the synthesis of spacer-armed di-, tri-, tetra- and penta-4,6-dideoxy-4-formamido-\u03b1-(1\u21922)-<jats:sc>d<\/jats:sc>-mannopyranosides which are related to the A-epitope of <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic> O-antigen. The key \u03b1-(1\u21922)-linked disaccharide thioglycoside donor was synthesized by employing the strategy of orthogonal glycosylation of thioglycoside acceptor with trichloroacetimidate donor. Sequential block-wise assembly yielded a series of desired compounds, which were subsequently deprotected and converted into target molecules and then into their fluorescein-labeled conjugates. The obtained conjugates were employed as tracers in a fluorescence polarization assay (FPA) to detect anti-<jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic> immunoglobulins. Among the studied compounds, the trisaccharide conjugate showed the greatest difference in median FP signals between <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic>-positive and <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic>-negative sera samples making it a promising candidate for developing FP diagnostic assays. The decreased FP signal in the cases of tetra- and pentasaccharide tracers can be associated with the known \u201cpropeller-effect\u201d due to the rotational mobility of the part bearing the fluorescent label and of the fluorescein itself and\/or the enlarging of the distance between the fluorescein part and the antibody-oligosaccharide complex. 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