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Monitoring of transmission of tuberculosis between wild boars and cattle: genotypical analysis of strains by molecular epidemiology techniques.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1999
Serraino A, Marchetti G, Sanguinetti V, Rossi M C, Zanoni R G, Catozzi L, Bandera A, Dini W, Mignone W, Franzetti F, Gori A
Abstract excerpt
An epidemiological survey for the monitoring of bovine tuberculosis transmission was carried out in western Liguria, a region in northern Italy. Fifteen Mycobacterium bovis strains were isolated from 63 wild boar samples (62 from mandibular lymph nodes and 1 from a liver specimen). Sixteen mediastinal lymph nodes of 16 head of cattle were collected, and 15 Mycobacterium bovis strains were subsequently cultured....
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