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Drug susceptibility of Spanish Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from animals.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Nov 2007
Romero Beatriz, Aranaz Alicia, Bezos Javier, Alvarez Julio, de Juan Lucía, Tariq Javed M, Mateos Ana, Gómez-Mampaso Enrique, Domínguez Lucas
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium caprae are zoonotic bacteria that cause tuberculosis with several clinical manifestations. We have evaluated the susceptibility to anti-tuberculosis drugs of a panel of Spanish isolates of animal origin. The analysis of the sequence of the main genes involved in resistance was performed in 41 M. bovis and five M. caprae. The katG, inhA, rpsL, embB and gyrA genes had single...
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