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A report of tuberculosis in cats in New Zealand, and the examination of strains of<i>Mycobuctetium bovis</i>by DNA restriction endonuclease analysis
1 Apr 1990
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Mycobacterium bovis was isolated from diagnostic samples from 57 cats submitted to New Zealand Animal Health Laboratories from 1974 to 1986. With six exceptions, these cats came from suburban and rural areas of New Zealand where M.bovis was also present in feral and wild animals, especially the brush-tailed possum. Tuberculous skin lesions were seen in 33 (58%) of the cats. Histologically, these lesions had some...
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